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After a moment of perplexity, Nerissa realized that he wanted his pouch returned
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As she reddened with shame, he tilted his head, as if with perplexity
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Having met his glance, which had shifted quickly from perplexity to amusement, she gestured with her eyes toward Carius who was still advancing
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Amonas was sitting at a partly exposed root of a gigantic tree he had trouble accepting that was real even though he had been sitting right there on the same spot for the better part of an hour in silent and thoughtful perplexity
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25 "There will be signs in the sun moon and stars; and on the Earth anxiety of nations in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
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1 And while they marvelled at that notice two men standing above them their 2 raiment shining and they were seized with fright and bowed down their face to 3 the Earth and they said to them Why seek you the living one with the deade He is not here; he is risen: remember what he was speaking to you while he was in 4 Galilee and saying The Son of man is to be delivered up into the hands of sinners 5 and to be crucified and on the third day to rise; But go in haste and say to his disciples and to Cephas He is risen from among the dead; and note he goes before 6 you into Galilee; and there you shall see him where he said to you: note I have 7 told you; And they remembered his sayings; and they departed in haste from the 8 tomb with joy and great fear and hastened and went; and perplexity and fear 9 encompassed them; and they told no man anything for they were afraid; And Mary hastened and came to Simon Cephas and to that other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them They have taken our Lord from the tomb and I know not where they have laid him; And Simon went out and that other disciple and came to the tomb; And they hastened both together and that disciple outran Simon and came first to the tomb; and he looked down and saw the linen laid; but he went not in; And Simon came after him and entered into the tomb and saw the linen laid; and the scarf with which his head was bound was not with the linen but wrapped and laid aside in a certain place; Then entered that disciple which came first to the tomb and saw and believed; And they knew not yet from the scriptures that the Messiah was to rise from among the dead; And those two disciples went to their place
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Luke 21:25-22:8 and there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the Earth distress for the nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them from fear and from looking after those things which are coming on the Earth because the powers of the universe shall be shaken and then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory and when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads because your redemption comes near
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bewildered perplexity shadowing his face, while delicate stirrings of
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He turned to Peteru, who nodded and frowned in perplexity
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Notwithstanding this confusion, throughout all of his perplexity his mother assured him that his distant cousin, Jesus of Nazareth, was the true Messiah, that he had come to sit on the throne of David, and that he (John) was to become his advance herald and chief support
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There was such a perplexity of flying wings that it was not possible to see who was winning the match
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First he eyed Kublai, then the audience, and there was another perplexity of flying wings
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‘Oh God, what a hell it has been!’ he thought in perplexity
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He stared at her in perplexity
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She frowned with perplexity as her eyes swept over the plain that stretched on all sides of the city to the forest edge, which marched in a vast, dim ring
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4 To James Zebedee, this Sunday was a day of perplexity and profound confusion; he could not grasp the purport of what was going on; he could not comprehend the Master's purpose in permitting this wild acclaim and then in refusing to say a word to the people when they arrived at the temple
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Can you help me?" Jesus, putting his hand on Nathaniel's shoulder, said: "My friend, it is not strange that you should encounter perplexity in your attempt to grasp the meaning of my spiritual teachings since you are so handicapped by your preconceptions of Jewish tradition and so confused by your persistent tendency to interpret my gospel in accordance with the teachings of the scribes and Pharisees
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Thomas, I am glad you joined us, and I know, after a short period of perplexity, you will go on in the service of the kingdom
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Her perplexity did not last very long, for quite soon Aureliano Segundo began to show signs of laziness and dissipation
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But Aureliano Segundo immediately con-quered his perplexity and declared the new arrivals to be guests of honor, and with the wisdom of Solomon he seated Remedios the Beauty and the intruding queen on the same dais
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"You know what I truly think Mindy?" Sipping on her Coke, she shook her head in perplexity
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“I recall reading her first novel,” he puckered his lips as he feigned perplexity,
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Lowell furrowed his brow in perplexity at a proposal that would so blatantly violate protocol, a formality he had learned from his wife who was accustomed to high society
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"And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them from fear and the
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stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
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the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, as the
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While they were in this perplexity the voice of Jamil sheikh emerged on speaker again
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” President responded to Mike and expressed his helpless and perplexity and distress
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He lies down again in perplexity
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“But I can’t understand that how had you captured our mighty Marine Star and where is General Frank and how did you fail defense system of Zamaril and destroyed it with your missile attacks…?”… Tomi exposed his perplexity
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But today all had left it alone and it was the high of bad luck of it that Zulimistan was completely helpless in this state of its people’s perplexity
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"The distress of nations with perplexity" seems to increase every year
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“How should we retort?” they asked, in some perplexity
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The overwhelming instantaneous salience of perplexity in not merely what things are, but that they are, that one is
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“What is the end of life?” NayHope whimpered her long pondered perplexity
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Sensing her immediate withdrawal, but not understanding the cause of it, Joel glanced at her with some perplexity
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Miss Cartwright was not one, normally, to look at butlers and footmen, but on this occasion a common perplexity levelled social distinctions
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She paused a moment in her search to stare down sideways at as much as she could see, without her spectacles, of the problem Miles had left her, and, as her custom was when in perplexity, cracked, one by one, the joints of her hard-worked fingers
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She had turned at that, giving up the search for tact, and had run up the remaining stairs rather breathlessly, feeling that Herr Dremmel on marriage had an engulfing quality; and he, after a moment's perplexity on the mat at the bottom, had gone to the reading-room a baffled man
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I repeated the scrap of gossip that had filtered through to me, which Carton received in quite as much perplexity as I had
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Carton did so, and a moment later turned to us with a look of perplexity on his face
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Now I see that the face of our dear Uksstukkullur has an expression of obvious perplexity and I imagine how arrogantly and haughtily all physicists will object my statement saying that even schoolchildren know that sound and color have different nature: sound is longitudinal oscillations of dense-material medium, which propagate in the form of sequences of as if “moving” bunches of this medium (as waves at sea), and color, that is, electromagnetic radiation, is the propagation of an electromagnetic Field
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concern, “everyone is always in a hurry,” he opines, frowning in perplexity
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She was in a state of perplexity
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Nancy looked at Jeanan with perplexity
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Once he sees the Lord, there’s no perplexity
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To a one, both men and women of this underground realm of horrors untold, shook their heads in perplexity
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My brow furrowed in perplexity of the strange reaction and then it occurred to me that these high order beasts had been gifted with an exceptionally keen intelligence
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distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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Why call on Israel if they were unable to judge the meaning of equity? Yet it was this very simple and well-defined law of justice that baffled McGarvey into a confession that strikes the fatal blow to his theory, demonstrating the great perplexity of his mind
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„I mean, was he towey with you?'…again another look of perplexity
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suddenly literally alive in the moment of my perplexity and wonder
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her head to one side, and her stare of perplexity gave me the distinct impression that she
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Shaking his head with as much perplexity as did the lioness that day, he turned with
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Raskolnikov did not sit down, but he felt unwilling to leave her, and stood facing her in perplexity
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"Could I have expected to set it all straight and to find a way out by means of Razumihin alone?" he asked himself in perplexity
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"How could you--how could you!" Razumihin said, shaking his head in perplexity
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He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came; no doubt it relieved his pain so much, by substituting the perplexity of the fingers for the perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, as he became more practised, the ingenuity of the hands, for the ingenuity of the mental torture; that he has never been able to bear the thought of putting it quite out of his reach
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" Raskolnikov muttered in reply, but with such a preoccupied and inattentive air that Dounia gazed at him in perplexity
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Dounia gazed gravely and intently into the poor girl's face, and scrutinised her with perplexity
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"I don't believe it, I can't believe it!" repeated Razumihin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov's arguments
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Raskolnikov drew back on the sofa as Porfiry bent over him and stared in silent perplexity at him
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" We can see the whole scene at a glance, the stolid unconsciousness of Sancho and the perplexity of his master, upon whose perception the incongruity has just forced itself
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Polenka was in her everyday dress; she looked in timid perplexity at her mother, and kept at her side, hiding her tears
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They went it might be a hundred paces farther, when on turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility of any mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise that had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted and disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes made all the din
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But the night before the unhappy day of my departure she wept, she moaned, she sighed, and she withdrew leaving me filled with perplexity and amazement, overwhelmed at the sight of such strange and affecting signs of grief and sorrow in Luscinda; but not to dash my hopes I ascribed it all to the depth of her love for me and the pain that separation gives those who love tenderly
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The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though be strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or his help in carrying them into effect
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Camilla was astonished at Anselmo's reply, which placed her in greater perplexity than before, for she neither dared to remain in her own house, nor yet to go to her parents'; for in remaining her virtue was imperilled, and in going she was opposing her husband's commands
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The state of perplexity to which Camilla reduced Lothario was such that he was unable to utter a word in reply, still less to decide upon what he should do
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Say, thief and vagabond, hast thou not just now told me that this princess had been turned into a maiden called Dorothea, and that the head which I am persuaded I cut off from a giant was the bitch that bore thee, and other nonsense that put me in the greatest perplexity I have ever been in all my life? I vow" (and here he looked to heaven and ground his teeth) "I have a mind to play the mischief with thee, in a way that will teach sense for the future to all lying squires of knights-errant in the world
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We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, "The Moors--the Moors have landed! To arms, to arms!" We were all thrown into perplexity by these cries, not knowing what to do; but reflecting that the shouts of the shepherd would raise the country and that the mounted coast-guard would come at once to see what was the matter, we agreed that the renegade must strip off his Turkish garments and put on a captive's jacket or coat which one of our party gave him at once, though he himself was reduced to his shirt; and so commending ourselves to God, we followed the same road which we saw the shepherd take, expecting every moment that the coast-guard would be down upon us
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Then it was he wished for the sword of Amadis, against which no enchantment whatever had any power; then he cursed his ill fortune; then he magnified the loss the world would sustain by his absence while he remained there enchanted, for that he believed he was beyond all doubt; then he once more took to thinking of his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso; then he called to his worthy squire Sancho Panza, who, buried in sleep and stretched upon the pack-saddle of his ass, was oblivious, at that moment, of the mother that bore him; then he called upon the sages Lirgandeo and Alquife to come to his aid; then he invoked his good friend Urganda to succour him; and then, at last, morning found him in such a state of desperation and perplexity that he was bellowing like a bull, for he had no hope that day would bring any relief to his suffering, which he believed would last for ever, inasmuch as he was enchanted; and of this he was convinced by seeing that Rocinante never stirred, much or little, and he felt persuaded that he and his horse were to remain in this state, without eating or drinking or sleeping, until the malign influence of the stars was overpast, or until some other more sage enchanter should disenchant him
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There was another of the same place and qualifications who also sought her, and this made her father's choice hang in the balance, for he felt that on either of us his daughter would be well bestowed; so to escape from this state of perplexity he resolved to refer the matter to Leandra (for that is the name of the rich damsel who has reduced me to misery), reflecting that as we were both equal it would be best to leave it to his dear daughter to choose according to her inclination--a course that is worthy of imitation by all fathers who wish to settle their children in life
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In this trouble and perplexity he came to where Don Quixote lay in a far sorrier plight than he liked, and having helped him to mount Rocinante, he said to him,
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I then gathered in the rope you were sending me, and making a coil or pile of it I seated myself upon it, ruminating and considering what I was to do to lower myself to the bottom, having no one to hold me up; and as I was thus deep in thought and perplexity, suddenly and without provocation a profound sleep fell upon me, and when I least expected it, I know not how, I awoke and found myself in the midst of the most beautiful, delightful meadow that nature could produce or the most lively human imagination conceive
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' It is asked of your worship, senor governor, what are the judges to do with this man? For they are still in doubt and perplexity; and having heard of your worship's acute and exalted intellect, they have sent me to entreat your worship on their behalf to give your opinion on this very intricate and puzzling case
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perplexity; and though the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face
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Sancho was surprised to hear himself called by his name and find himself embraced by a foreign pilgrim, and after regarding him steadily without speaking he was still unable to recognise him; but the pilgrim perceiving his perplexity cried, "What! and is it possible, Sancho Panza, that thou dost not know thy neighbour Ricote, the Morisco shopkeeper of thy village?"
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Roque was in perplexity and knew not what to do; the servants ran to fetch water to sprinkle their faces, and brought some and bathed them with it
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This answer left the viceroy in a state of perplexity, not knowing whether he ought to let the combat go on or not; but unable to persuade himself that it was anything but a joke he fell back, saying,
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--It was to feel most painfully alone; but she rejoiced to think, that she should spare him the care and perplexity of the suit, and meet him again, all his own
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But I did not notice the door from the passage softly and slowly open at that instant and a figure come in, stop short, and begin staring at us in perplexity I glanced, nearly swooned with shame, and rushed back to my room
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Several times she glanced at me with mournful perplexity
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The frightened and wounded expression on her face was followed first by a look of sorrowful perplexity
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"It is strange," replied Elinor, in a most painful perplexity, "that I should never have heard him even mention your name
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Elinor had just been congratulating herself, in the midst of her perplexity, that however difficult it might be to express herself properly by letter, it was at least preferable to giving the information by word of mouth, when her visitor entered, to force her upon this greatest exertion of all
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In bitter perplexity she kneeled down and prayed:
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Dashwood could penetrate, and at last, without saying a word, quitted the room, and walked out towards the village--leaving the others in the greatest astonishment and perplexity on a change in his situation, so wonderful and so sudden;--a perplexity which they had no means of lessening but by their own conjectures
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The perplexity of medicine is paralleled by the perplexity of law; in which, again, Plato would have men follow the golden rule of simplicity
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--My friend, I said, no wonder that we are in a perplexity; for we have lost sight of the image which we had before us
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I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appeared that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity
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"My father!" he cried, in strange perplexity
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which perplexity another was added, and that was, what we should say
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Pocket, with the normal perplexity of his face heightened and his hair rumpled, looked at them for some minutes, as if he couldn't make out how they came to be boarding and lodging in that establishment, and why they hadn't been billeted by Nature on somebody else
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A look of perplexity appeared on Gabriel's face
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This was very singular to me, and I looked at her in considerable perplexity
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Not as usual, I said, for she had never yet gone there without me; when was she coming back? There was an air of reservation in the answer which increased my perplexity, and the answer was, that her maid believed she was only coming back at all for a little while