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He had a bad fainting fit, but with a long rest he may recover." The little party broke up once more into groups. Granet, who had drawn for a moment apart and seemed to be adjusting the knots of his sling, turned to Thomson. "Has he recovered consciousness yet?" he asked. "Barely," was the terse reply. "There was no special cause for his going off like that, I suppose?"
"With a cry of horror Hartnoll sprang back, and as he did so a great yellow dog dashed across the hearth in front of him, whilst from somewhere close at hand came a laugh long, low and satirical. A cold terror gripped Hartnoll, and for a moment or so he was on the verge of fainting.
He spoke of the deacon Leander, now on his way hither begged Aurelia to listen to the reverend man, and gave solemn assurance that, the moment she abjured her errors, he would place her in a position of wealth and authority far above that of Petronilla. So utterly did he exhaust himself in entreaty and argument that he fell into a fainting fit.
A shiver ran through his whole body; a sharp pain transfixed his heart; his throat closed convulsively; half fainting, he leaned against the window-frame, his eyes closed, his ears stopped, to shut out all sights or sounds, longing only for oblivion and complete torpor of body and mind. He did not realize his longing.
The dark eyes of Madame Raffoni gleamed pityingly as she drew the young man, almost by force, away. With an agony of sudden terror she pointed to the hallway, and laid her finger upon her lip. And then, in a hoarse whisper, the woman told, in her patois, broken with sobs, of the alternate spells of fainting and exhaustion which had brought Irma Gluyas nigh to Death's door.
We procured a ladder, which we raised against the tree, and one of our party ascended to the uppermost branches without experiencing the fainting sensation ascribed to be produced by close contact with its foliage.
They fell on the recluse, on whom he kept them steadily fixed with a look of surprise. "I thought John and Harry were with me," he murmured out. "I heard their voices calling as I lay fainting on the bank." "Yes; we are here," John and I said, coming forward. "Duppo and his sister met us, and brought us to you." "I am so glad," he said in a low voice.
"I didn't, of course, think Your Majesty intended to murder your own flesh and blood!" The King for all reply flung the plate of sausages at Hedzoff's head. The Princess cried out "Hee-karee-karee!" and fell down in a fainting fit. "Turn the cock of the urn upon Her Royal Highness," said the King, and the boiling water gradually revived her.
Her eyes, whose proud glance had brought the waiting-maid to her feet, were dimmed by tears; her head, carried so proudly but a few minutes before, now lay on the jewels which covered the table. Tears rolled down among the pearls and diamonds, as strange a contrast as the proud tiara and its unhappy, fainting wearer.
"The faint scream Bettina uttered," continued Carlton, "was smothered by his ready adroitness; and seizing the fainting girl, as though she was an infant, the robber bore her away to a spot concealed by the darkness, where several of his confederates met him, as had been preconcerted; and in a few minutes after Egbert had left her side, Bettina, all unconscious, was being carried fair away to the almost impregnable stronghold of the robbers.
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