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Other facts which will be developed in the course of this book will only deepen the mystery. We will therefore state some of the best known theories. Before doing so, however, it would be well to state concisely just what seems to happen in a case of hypnotism. The word hypnotism means sleep, and the definition of hypnotism implies artificially produced sleep.
"Read 'em all in the train." "At bay," he said. "I been at bay for a week.... Yelping round me.... And me facing the music. I'm feelin' a bit tired." He blew and wiped his glasses. "My stomack isn't what it was," he explained. "One finds it these times. How did it all happen, George? Your Marconigram it took me in the wind a bit." I told him concisely.
"I can't; I'm off for Troy," said Jasper concisely, "and I don't come back this way." "Goodness! what a man your Marlowe is. And your sister Marian wants to hear about Polly and all the others; you've seen them so lately." "It's impossible," began Jasper; "you see I can't help it, Brother Mason; Mr. Marlowe's orders must be carried out." "He's a beast, your Marlowe is," declared Mr. Whitney hotly.
General Gordon has explained his views very clearly and concisely: 'Had Zubehr Pasha been sent up when I asked for him, Berber would in all probability never have fallen, and one might have made a Soudan Government in opposition to the Mahdi.
He then told her concisely what had happened with relation to the girl to which she scarce made any answer, but asked him if he had not dined? He assured her he had not eat a morsel the whole day. "Well," says she, "my dear, I am a fellow-sufferer; but we shall both enjoy our supper the more; for I have made a little provision for you, as I guessed what might be the case.
The logical and proper answer to that did not spring as readily to his lips as it would have done at the time of his appointment by the Board of Home Missions. Along with that he was troubled by a constant recurrence of his thoughts to Sophie Carr. Nor was it a matter of wonder at her bookish knowledge, her astonishing vocabulary, her ability to think and to express her thoughts concisely.
She opened the paper that was wrapped about her fragment of rank yellow cheese, laid it down on the step between them, and then produced, in their order of precedence, the pie, the onions and the bread. "Wha gied ye that?" asked Wishart, gazing at the mutton-pie. "A leddy," replied Baubie, concisely. "An' they?" pointing to the onions.
As each boarder finished his meal he raided the glass of wooden toothpicks and went away with no standing on the order of his going; but Martin waited for Harkless, who, not having attended to business so concisely as the others, was the last to leave the table, and they stood for a moment under the awning outside, lighting their cigars. "Call on the judge, to-night?" asked Martin.
Unity is a striking characteristic; the action can usually be summed up in a few words, such as the formula for this story, given expressly on its first page: "His sense of justice made him a robber and a murderer." There is no leisurely exposition of time, place, or situation; all the necessary elements are given concisely in the first sentences.
He clutched desperately at the cellar window, shot past, and down the steps bing! into a huge basket of clothes a fat colored woman was bringing up. She was as wide as the basket and the basket took up about all the area-way. "Land sakes, chile!" she said, as Sunny Boy landed on top of her basket. "Where you goin'?" "Skating," said Sunny Boy concisely, glad to find that he wasn't hurt.
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