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All mental states to which such names as ecstasy, trance, and vision can be applied involve a dangerous element which, if not actually pathological, can easily become so.
For a minute she stood looking at these windows, as though hypnotized by some message they conveyed the answer to a question suggested by the incident that had aroused and terrified her. They drew her, as in a trance, across the street, she opened the glass-panelled door, remembering mechanically the trick it had of not quite closing, turned and pushed it to and climbed the stairs.
She was unknown to him, of course, but she hit back so courageously that he watched her with interest, until until suddenly he retreated farther into the trance. He had seen Elspeth go on her knees, obviously to ask God to stay the hands and tongues of these cruel boys. Elspeth had disgraced him, he felt. He was done with her forever. If they struck her, serve her right. Struck her!
For nearly a week he went about in a happy trance: and when, by thrift and enterprise that is to say, by betting Reggie van Tuyl that the New York Giants would win the opening game of the series against the Pittsburg baseball team he contrived to double his capital, what it amounted to was simply that life had nothing more to offer.
Mister Fitzgibbon seemed to come out of a trance; he shook himself, and stared at Sails and then at Chips. He glared across the deck at us of the starboard watch. He even swore. But there was no life to his curse, and he made no step to follow the defiant stiff into the foc'sle.
The word was "curtain." Of the extraordinary event that followed the breaking up of the seance, I have the keenest recollection. Miss Jeremy came out of her trance weak and looking extremely ill, and Sperry's motor took her home. She knew nothing of what had happened, and hoped we had been satisfied. By agreement, we did not tell her what had transpired, and she was not curious.
And still her voice hissed: "What do you mean?" And her voice and hands and eyes were strangely compelling. "I mean," I answered, in a low, even voice, like one in a trance, "that you are a Messalina, a Julia, a Joan of Naples, beautiful as they and as wanton." Now at the word she cried out, and struck me twice across the face, blows that burnt and stung. "Beast!" she cried. "Liar!
His body was trilateral: he had three legs, three arms, and six eyes, placed at equal distances all around his head. This gave him an aspect of great watchfulness and sagacity. He was standing in a sort of trance.
Yes," answered Isak, and murmured, overwhelmed, "'Tis not that I've asked for it, nor would after all you've done." "Ten tens in that should be, and twenty fives here," said Geissler shortly. "And I hope there'll be more than that by a long way for your share soon." And then it was that Oline recovered from her trance. The wonder had happened after all. She set the food on the table.
For a minute she stood looking at these windows, as though hypnotized by some message they conveyed the answer to a question suggested by the incident that had aroused and terrified her. They drew her, as in a trance, across the street, she opened the glass-panelled door, remembering mechanically the trick it had of not quite closing, turned and pushed it to and climbed the stairs.
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