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I found myself gazing, without blinking, into his eyes. I found myself mesmerized by the sound and the rhythm of his words. Somewhere far away, I found myself floating... my vision blurred... things went fuzzy... "Hey!" I thought, bursting the mental bubble. "He's formatting us again only this time without the LSD!" I stood back up. I was ready for action. I did not know what to do.
I see weird shapes: witches, Puritans, clergymen, little children, judges, mesmerized maidens, moving to the sound of melody that thrills me with its sweetness and purity. But, although carried along its calm and evenly flowing current, the shapes are strange and frightful: an eating lichen gnaws at the heart of each.
"You mean that you want to mesmerize her as you did the Zulu chief." Benita opened her lips to speak, but Meyer said quickly: "No, no; hear me first before you refuse. You have the gift, the precious gift of clairvoyance, that is so rare." "How do you know that, Mr. Meyer? I have never been mesmerized in my life." "It does not matter how.
I cannot tell you why; I have a feeling this week for Bari." Again she tried to speak. But the ring mesmerized her. It had become vast and elliptical, and floated in at the reception-room door. "Ah! you don't care if you get the profits. You won't even say 'Thank you, Gino. Say it, or I'll drop hot, red-hot ashes on you. 'Thank you, Gino " The ring had extended its pale blue coils towards her.
"And yet that Voltaire is a terrible fellow. Half the young ladies in the room were nearly as much mesmerized as you were. You acted in pretty nearly the same way as Simon here, but nothing else. Do you feel quite right?" "I am awfully weak," I said, "and cold shivers creep down my legs." "You were such a long time under the influence, whatever it is," said Tom.
"Exactly what I said!" exclaimed Donovan. "And Scotch singing of Scotch airs is like nothing else in the world." Whether he mesmerized them both, or whether his stronger will and higher purpose prevailed, it would be hard to say. Certainly Erica was quite as unwilling to sing as Lady Caroline was to favor her with a request.
They want my water, for they must eliminate competition, and they want to tie me up before I have an opportunity to sell to somebody who realizes the value of my holdings. Up Inyo way they know me for a range rider, a desert rat, a ne'er-do- well, and it may be they are under the impression that I am like most of my kind that I can be mesmerized by the sight of four or five thousand dollars."
It mesmerized her, did Ta-te's eye, with its setting of flame, even to the exclusion of enthusiasm about the big dance the joyous Together in the evening, of which Una raved in anticipation now and again, and for which these two friends and rivals in the matter of eyelashes had brought their prettiest party dresses.
If I had indeed mesmerized or hypnotized you, I might perhaps have deserved some reward for the exertion of my purely professional skill, but ... as I have told you already ... I have done absolutely nothing. Your fate is, as it has always been, in your own hands.
Looking up she met Sir Norman's gaze, and as if there was something in its quiet, pitying tenderness that mesmerized her into calm, she steadily and rapidly went on. "I awoke to a new life, after that; but not to one of freedom and happiness. I was as closely, even more closely, guarded than ever; and I found, when too late, that I had bartered myself, soul and body, for an empty promise.
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