Astonishment and doubt first seized them; and a shortly succeeding ray of common sense added some bitter emotions of shame.
She could not, in whatever direction she took it, believe the last letter to be a T; and yet that it should be anything else in that house was a circumstance to raise no common degree of astonishment.
" Catherine, with all the earnestness of truth, expressed her astonishment at such a charge, protesting her innocence of every thought of Mr.
Isabella shrugged her shoulders and smiled, the only explanation of this extraordinary change which could at that time be given; but as it was not quite enough for Catherine's comprehension, she spoke her astonishment in very plain terms to her partner.
" Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead.
" with affected astonishment.
Then as he—from the sounds of the steps she took them to belong to a man—did not move, she turned her head, and beheld with astonishment a person she had seen a good deal of lately in London, the well-known writer of amusing memoirs, Mr.
After all, she had to take trouble, she had to make efforts, because, she discovered with astonishment and rage, she had to defend herself.
They said nothing in their astonishment, but stood quite still, arm in arm, staring down at her.
In a trice Anne was out of the house and flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in her expressive eyes.
Marilla looked horrified astonishment.
" Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.
Frederick looked at her daughter in astonishment.
However, the widow made a pretty fair show of astonishment, and heaped so many compliments and so much gratitude upon Huck that he almost forgot the nearly intolerable discomfort of his new clothes in the entirely intolerable discomfort of being set up as a target for everybody's gaze and everybody's laudations.
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
Tom's astonishment was boundless!
When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.
"Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, and then impulsively he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my car?
To my astonishment, I've so far resisted these impulses.
