" To any man who knew the Sierra hereabouts less intimately than did Mark King, Gus Ingle's message would have brought only stupefaction.

To describe the delirious stupefaction of Marimonda, when she perceives her master under this strange costume, would be a thing impossible.

Monsieur Bargemont was left alone to digest his stupefaction; even so his first thought was to save the honour of his Department.

"Will Mr. Wilkeson tell us about what time he left this house that night, and where he went?" Marcus raised his sunken head, and shook it, as if to dispel a stupefaction.

" Thereupon he fully recognized her, but hid his stupefaction at finding her so fortunately circumstanced at the close of her career.

Think over, I beseech you, this fact of the stupefying effect of mere material civilization; and remember that plenty and comfort do not diminish but increase that stupefaction; that Hebrew prophets knew it, and have told us, again and again, that, by fulness of bread the heart waxeth gross; that Greek sages knew it, and have told us, again and again, that need, and not satiety, was the quickener of the human intellect.

Fortunately it was Lanyard's cue to register shock; it would have cost him something to have kept secret his stupefaction.

Then, as though she pitied his stupefaction, she made further explanations.

The smile with which she dismissed them lingered, delightful and enigmatic, as Eve recognised the stupefaction with which Duchemin moved to remonstrate with her.