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"Oh," said she, as she got into a half-sitting position, "I thought we should have to pack up; it's late already, isn't it?"

In a half-sitting attitude, her head resting against the edge of the couch and her arms flung above her head, she sank into an indifference, the mere resignation of a worn-out body and a worn-out mind which often is the only sort of rest that comes to people who are desperately ill and is welcome enough in a way. The voice of Jorgenson roused her out of that state.

She was reclining, half-sitting, on a divan in her cool and shady bedroom, and she at once told her son of her determination to follow the physician's advice and entrust the little girl to his friend.

Her next sensation was of half-sitting, half-lying in an uneasy arm-chair a chair which jolted, slid and swung, and then again glided smoothly. There was something hairy over her face, and she drew her breath with difficulty. She was in a car the weight on her face was the hairy side of a rug. Movement seemed impossible, and the fur now and then hurt her eyes.

"I knocked at your door several times, and you didn't answer," said Carrie; "so then I opened it softly and came in, and you were half-sitting, half-kneeling by your bed, sound asleep; and your skirt did look so very fashionable that I was tempted! oh yes, I have taken the pattern in my mind's eye. I'll alter my blue nun's-veiling.

"I'm seein' things two at a time, b' Jazus!" he answered. "We've got plenty of nothin' but wather, maybe ye'd like a good dhrink, Billy?" Before he could reply the bogman raised himself to a half-sitting posture, and yelled with all the power of his lungs: "Whoa! back, ye dhirty baste, back!" The wild yell chilled the blood in our veins.

"You are candid," he said, with an unpleasant little laugh. "Yes." He moved a little to one side and drew a chair towards him, half-leaning, half-sitting on the back of it. "Then," he said, "I will be candid with you. I intend you to marry me; I have intended it for a long time. I am not going down on my knees to ask you to do it: that is not my way.

Regnar brought in about twenty bundles more of fir-twigs, which were piled against the wall so as to form a kind of slanting pillow, against which the party might rest their backs and heads in a half-sitting posture, without being chilled by the ice-wall of their narrow dormitory.

He asks to be rais'd up, and they put him in a half-sitting posture. He call'd for "Mark" repeatedly, half-deliriously, all day. Life ebbs, runs now with the speed of a mill race; his splendid neck, as it lays all open, works still, slightly; his eyes turn back.

I gripped her with my hands, fumbling to catch her wrists, but before I could succeed she toppled forward and fell partly over me. I heard Miela give a cry of fright. I struggled free and raised myself up to a half-sitting position. Baar's wife lay beside me dead, with the slave woman's knife buried to the hilt in her back.