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She was panting from exertion, but neither her physical nor her mental faculties were abated. She spoke sharply and imperiously: "Bring up the mule, and help me fasten the chest upon him. We must reach higher ground before the waters overtake us. And now " She turned to Freeman, who by this time was sitting up and regarding her with stupefaction. "Miriam!" was all he could utter.
Mirth and jollity prevailed; but the fumes of the liquors, in which the politic lady had infused strong opiates, suddenly operated upon their senses, and they fell down one and all in a state of stupefaction.
Would she shrink from or encourage him? His wife! He wagged his head in solemn stupefaction, trying to appreciate the intangible, the chimerical dream of yesterday resolved into the actuality of to-day; realising that, even when most intrigued by the adventure of which she was at once the cause and the prize, even though he had met and been charmed by her before becoming enmeshed in its web of incident, he had thought of her with a faint trace of incredulity, as though she had been a thing of fable, trapped with all the fanciful charms of beleaguered fairy princesses, rather than a living woman of flesh and fire and blood such as she proved to be who rode with him, her thoughts drowsily astray in the vastnesses of her inscrutable, virginal moods.
A line of Browning came involuntarily to his mind: I will not soil thy purple with my dust; but he was thinking of Elizabeth and not of the sunset. "I must battle it out with myself," he repeated. But hours passed, and the moon had risen, and he still lay there, plucking up the heather and flinging it aside in a stupefaction of misery.
"No, I am not!" interrupted Marietta firmly. "I would rather not marry at all " "Not marry!" repeated Beroviero, interrupting her in a tone of profound stupefaction, and standing still in the sun as he spoke. "Why what is the matter?" "Is it so strange that I should be contented with my girl's life?" asked Marietta.
Every person who has experienced the bewildering effect of sudden bad tidings, the stupefaction, the vague doubt of the truth of our own perceptions which they produce, will understand the following simile: "I was as he is who dreameth his own harm, who, dreaming, wishes that it may be all a dream, so that he desires that which is as though it were not."
" They are fighting just ahead of us on the road and if you want to save yourselves don't waste time." Another face loomed faintly like a mask painted in dark grey. It belonged to Coke, and it was a mask figured in profound stupefaction. The lips opened and tensely breathed out the name: " Coleman." Instantly the correspondent felt about him that kind of a tumult which tries to suppress itself.
Their persecution bewildered her, and the resulting stupefaction was a kind of support to her for a time; but at last she could endure it no longer, being really hurt by a fall, and ran crying into the shop, where she sobbed out, "Please, sir, they winna lat me be." "Dinna come into the chop wi' yer stories. Mak' it up amo' yersels." "But they winna mak' it up."
And his drowsiness and stupefaction were followed by an extraordinary, feverish, as it were distracted haste. But the preparations to be made were few. He concentrated all his energies on thinking of everything and forgetting nothing; and his heart kept beating and thumping so that he could hardly breathe. First he had to make a noose and sew it into his overcoat a work of a moment.
Yeux-gris stared at him, neither in fear nor in fury, but in utter stupefaction. "But Gervais? He plotted with you? But he hates you!" We gaped at Lucas like yokels at a conjurer. He made us no answer but looked from one to the other of us with the alertness of an angry viper. We were two, but without swords. I knew he was thinking how easiest to end us both. M. le Comte cried: "You!
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