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At the end of the half-hour he caught Vi by the arms and lifted her to her feet. "Come on," he said. Vi stared at him as one half-awakened. "I don't want to go anywhere," she said. "I'm very well here." "Nonsense!" said Leighton, "you don't realize what you're doing to yourself. On my word, you look positively puttyish." "Puttyish!" cried Vi, a flush of anger rising to her face.
In the next place we take Pilate, as the representative of what I have ventured to call the shufflings of a half-awakened conscience.
The room felt close and confined in which she awaited her interview with Mr. Johnson, who had sent down an apology for having overslept himself, and at last made his appearance in a hurried half-awakened state, in consequence of his late hospitality of the night before. "I am so sorry I gave you all so much trouble last night," said Ellinor, apologetically.
Lydia sat down on the edge of her bed in her green neglige, listening to the sounds around her. Outside, there was a continuous howling and barking of dogs, now and then she could distinguish the croaking of half-awakened crows in the park.
Mollie the eyes were Mollie's dropped her brown lashes with a quick motion, turning a little away from him; so he smiled at her with a sense of half-awakened appreciation. It was so natural to smile so at Mollie. "Why, Mollie," he said, "what ails us? We are not usually so dull. We have not spoken to each other for ten minutes."
The night, with its host of strange, half-awakened sensations, was a memory to be lived down, to be crushed altogether. For him, doubtless, that lie had been a providence. It put a stop to any further intercourse between them, it stamped her at once with the hall-mark of unworthiness. Yet he knew that he was disappointed; disappointment was, perhaps, a mild word.
Judas represents the agony of conscience, Pilate represents the shuffling sophistications of a half-awakened conscience, and those priests and people represent the torpor of an altogether misdirected conscience. I. Judas, or the agony of conscience.
Archer!" exclaimed a loud young voice; and looking up he saw before him the youngest and largest of the Blenker girls, blonde and blowsy, in bedraggled muslin. A red blotch on one of her cheeks seemed to show that it had recently been pressed against a pillow, and her half-awakened eyes stared at him hospitably but confusedly. "Gracious where did you drop from?
No, not there, a little to the right, he heard her crying, and, finding a piece of linen and a hammer and some nails, he went out into the greyness still undisturbed by the chirrup of a half-awakened bird.
Noting the alert questioning in the eyes of the young man, and the half-awakened inquiry in the sordid countenance of Raikes, Gratz, in order to prevent the intrusion of any disturbing remark upon his present purpose, said impressively: "I must ask you both to listen without interruption.
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