Quotes About Surprise

You have had Ravenscar murdered, and hidden his body in my cellar! uttered her ladyship, sinking into a chair. We shall all be ruined! I knew it! My dear ma'am it is no such thing! Deborah said amused. He is not dead I assure you!

Surprise is the essence of attack!

The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die

Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap.

Read that!" commanded madame dramatically, and handed her a crumpled sheet of paper. It contained a brief message in Juliana's sprawling characters: "My dear Tante, pray do not be in a taking, but I have gone with Vidal. I have No Time to write more, for I am in Desperate Haste. Juliana." "But—but it is not possible!" stammered Léonie, growing quite pale

No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.

Does it occur to *you*, Miss Lanyon, that although i have twice been on the verge of it, I have not yet offered for you? Being now safe from interruption, will you do me the honour, ma'am -' 'Good! You haven't gone to bed yet,' said Aubrey, suddenly re-entering the room. 'I have had a most excellent notion!' 'This,' said Damerel wrathfully, 'is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

Later, when she appeared before him in the sea-green gauze, he stared at her in great surprise, and said: By Jove, he had never thought she could look so well! Encouraged by this tribute, Hero showed him a cloak of green sarsnet trimmed with swansdown, which she had purchased that morning, and upon his expressing his unqualified approval of this garment, confided, a little nervously, that she feared he might, when he came to see the bill, think it a trifle dear.

Then you,' said Sophy, 'are Lord Charlbury!' He bowed. 'I am, and I perceive that my fame has gone before me. I own, I should not have chosen to figure in your mind as the man with mumps, but so, I see, it is!

Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?

She made the rather horrifying discovery that the slim fingers of a lady could curl into claws, and quickly straightened them.

taken out of his control by that best of good fellows, who descended upon them at that moment with Chloë on his arm, having

She opened her eyes very wide at

Damn it, he was in here with the door locked!' Stephen said. 'He can't have been stabbed'.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

Seems old?" said Violet. "Do I know her?" "Yes, you all know her very well," said Mr. Alden. "She is Mrs. McGregor." "Mrs. McGregor!" shouted all the children. They could not believe it.

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Moore's and stay, until the surprise comes.

Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It

The Aldens did not know that soon they would meet a wonderful friend and find some people who were not friendly at all.

They were soon asleep again. They did not know that Joe had asked Mr. Hill to come because he could show them a big black bear. They did not know that Mr. Hill and the bear were good friends. The bear knew that he would find food wherever Mr. Hill was.

I think some horse snot flew out and landed on me," yelled Benny. A

None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years.

There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man!