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Colonel Carmichael turned. "This is no time," he said sternly, "and it is too late for atonement. Our account with this world is closed." "It need not be. Colonel in the name of those whose lives lie in your hands, I beg of you to listen to me." There was a moment's hesitating silence. Travers' glazed eyes were fixed on the elder man's face with a hypnotizing power.
Murrett chucked her because Mrs. Didymus accused her of hypnotizing the Professor. But of course you don't remember. We were all invisible to you; but we could see. And we all used to wonder about you " Again Darrow felt a redness in the temples. "What about me?" "Well whether it was you or she who..." He winced, but hid his disapproval. It made the time pass to listen to her.
That's my failing I ain't willing to stick." "I perhaps Here's the flat." "Lord!" he cried; "we got to walk a block farther and back." "Well " They were stealing onward toward the breeze from the river before she had finished her "Well." "Think of wasting this hypnotizing evening talking of success word that means a big house in Yonkers! When we've become friends, Goldie, little Goldie.
Then he screamed. He had not intended to scream, but the monster had moved toward him, hypnotizing him with its stare. He could see clearly the poisonous vapor which it was said to exhale! He screamed again and a man's scream is a sound not to be forgotten. The Dago Duke "had them," as Crowheart phrased it, and "had them" right.
His head leaned heavy on his left hand and his mouth hung open, as his eye travelled dreamily along the lines. He succeeded in hypnotizing his brain at last, by the mere process of staring at the page. At last he heard Janet in the lobby. That meant that school was over. He crept down the stair. "You were playing the truant," said Janet, and she nodded her head in accusation.
Fortunate, indeed, would it have been had that brave officer and splendid gentleman been left to develop and carry out his plans, but unhappily that was not to be, for the churches succeeded in hypnotizing the grim soldier in the White House, and the result was the "Peace Commission." The Peace Commission's Work. A. B. Meacham was at that time in Washington.
He smiled again, that calling, hypnotizing smile, that made me want to rush to him and ask him to be my friend. But I restrained myself and turned to listen to Virginia. The music haunted me. It sounded like the voice of a soul searching for something it could never find. I was still dreaming about it when I heard Mr. Lee say, "Now, Aunt, shall we have some cribbage?"
My contention is that we are all suggestible and, therefore, being hypnotized or hypnotizing ourselves is just a matter of increasing the suggestibility that we already possess. Doesn't the hypnotist begin by suggesting relaxation? Doesn't he usually begin by requesting the subject to fix his attention on a particular object?
It is not that they have not a conscience which forbids them from acting thus, just as, even three or four hundred years ago, when people burnt men at the stake and put them to the rack they had a conscience which prohibited it; the conscience is there, but it has been put to sleep in those in command by what the psychologists call auto-suggestion; in the soldiers, by the direct conscious hypnotizing exerted by the higher classes.
He was absolutely averse to the use of hypnotism in his own case because he was afraid that to be hypnotized would mean for him a certain disposition to fall into hypnotic sleep by auto-suggestion, as he knew the vividness of his imaginative sensations. He wanted to avoid that the more as his own professional work might sometimes demand hypnotizing in his own practice.
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