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Such joyful shouts as there were, and such joyful answers! And then but I leave you to imagine the scene aboard the steamer when the lost ones stepped out of the motor launch. Mr. DeVere, who was in a state of collapse through fear for his daughters, nearly fainted from joy, but he soon was himself again.
I should have fainted had not Mr Vernon come in, and had me carried on deck. "Your presence of mind has saved all our lives, D'Arcy, and I can never forget it," he exclaimed. "But we have still more work to do. Lift off the hatches, my lads." This order was quickly obeyed. With eager haste he hunted through every part of the ship. I guessed at length what was in his mind.
"It appeareth in nothing more, that Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man, than by this, that Atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it within themselves, and would be glad to be strengthened by the opinion of others: nay more, you shall have Atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects; and, which is most of all, you shall have of them that will suffer for Atheism, and not recant; whereas, if they truly think that there is no such thing as God, Why should they trouble themselves?"
Here I fell into a gentle breathing slumber, which stole upon my senses, as they fainted under the excessive heat of the season at that hour; a cane couch, with my work basked for a pillow, were all the conveniences of my short repose; for I was soon awaked and alarmed by a flounce, and noise of splashing in the water.
I grappled with Mackenzie and overpowered him, and to save my own life I had to stab him to the heart " "He deserved it," said I. "It was a just retribution. And how did the fight turn out?" "Two of Mackenzie's party escaped, and the rest were killed," Captain Rudstone answered. "I knew little of it at the time, for I was shot through the shoulder and fainted from loss of blood.
"Sir, if you are insinuating that my wife carried on a flirtation or an an affair with that Sprague insect " Tracey began to bluster. But Dundee's eyes were on Flora Miles, and he saw that her sallow skin had tightened like greyish silk over her thin cheek bones, and that her eyes looked suddenly dead and glassy. "You fainted, you say, Mrs. Miles," Dundee went on inexorably.
"Evening, Miss McClean," said Cunningham; and she all but fainted, she was strained to such a pitch of nervousness. "Where have you come from, Miss McClean?" asked Cunningham. And she told him. She was not quite so stiff-chinned as she had been. "What were you doing there?" She told him that, too. "Where is your father?" "In his chair on the veranda, Mr. Cunningham. There, in that deep shadow."
Whether she fainted in good truth, or whether she passed, for a while, into that sublimated state of consciousness wherein the veils of habit cease to blind and something of the eternal essence and values of things is revealed, perception overstepping, for once, the limits of ordinary, earth-bound apprehension and transcending ordinary circumscription of time and place, she could not tell.
When I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace or copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate; and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.
I myself received a wound upon my hand in warding a blow from my face; and in the turmoil of the scene, and of the blow, I fainted, and was conveyed by some humane person to a place of safety, in the upper part of the palace. Thus deprived of my senses for several hours, I was spared the agony of witnessing the scenes of horror that succeeded.
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