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"Forgive me for bringing you here," he would say, smiling after his crooked fashion, and lifting his hat politely, "but I wish to ask you if you have not changed your mind as to being mesmerized?"
They recalled it like a sort of nightmare, like something they could not control. Perhaps there was really a magnetism about the mesmerist; perhaps there was even more magnetism about the man mesmerized.
'Meantime I vote we have a game of bridge, said the plump one. 'It will give Mr Hannay time to think over things, and you know we have been wanting a fourth player. Do you play, Sir? I accepted as if it had been an ordinary invitation at the club. The whole business had mesmerized me. We went into the smoking-room where a card-table was set out, and I was offered things to smoke and drink.
I went up to the little room of screens in which he lay, and taking a wooden chair, I slipped it in between the screen and the bed and sat down. Is it the ether which rushes up from between his broken teeth? is it the red glare of the turkey-twill screens? but in ten minutes I am altered, mesmerized. Even the size of my surroundings is changed.
Let me see if I can review calmly my ridiculous position. It comes to this, I insist on being mesmerized ... I have a dream, ... and I see a woman in the dream" here he suddenly corrected himself ... "a woman did I say? No! ... she was something far more than that! A lovely phantom a dazzling creature of my own imagination ... an exquisite ideal whom I will one day immortalize ... yes!
Never could understand it after the thing was done. He was talking of it once to a man who was a sharp on things like mesmerism, and the man called it hypnotic suggestion. Said that Steele got control of the whole outfit and mesmerized ’em so they couldn’t do a thing to him." Several of the men asked for the story, echoes of which had come down through all the forty years since its happening.
All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerized the subject.
I said, not expecting him to humour my impudence, but he did, by going at once to the piano. It had lisped and stammered awkwardly for Mrs. James, but it obeyed him as if the keys were mesmerized. He played a prelude, and then sang "Annie Laurie," in a soft, mellow voice, so low that people outside the room could hardly have heard.
So obdurately fixed on a mental conceptualization of some type of truth her eyes scintillated and they, these sinners of the heart, became mesmerized believers in the idea that being free of the fetters of self restraint would be for the good of Noppawan.
They are greatly assisted in their tricks by the wonderful power which they possess of casting a glamour over those who yield themselves to their influence, so that such victims for the time see and hear only what these fairies impress upon them, exactly as the mesmerized subject sees, hears, feels and believes whatever the magnetizer wishes.
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