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She knew that her face must betray her consciousness; and at last she Maruja, the self-poised and all-sufficient goddess actually turned, in half-hysterical and girlish bashfulness, to Carroll for relief in an affected and exaggerated absorption of his attentions. She scarcely knew that the clergyman had finished speaking, when Raymond approached them softly from behind.
It was a silly thing to say, but then, she was half-hysterical. In fact, all four were. "That's what I wanted to do rouse her up," observed Alice to her sister. "It's our only safety to remain upright. And we might try to frighten the cattle." "How?" asked Ruth. "Let's shout and yell and wave things at them. We've got parasols. Let's wave them open and shut them quickly.
In an arm-chair before the opened stove sat the rescued girl a slight, golden-haired thing, with wistful blue eyes and a frightened air. Every moment she caught her breath in a half-hysterical sob, while violent shivers shook her from head to foot.
Garson exclaimed, eagerly. "They ain't even to be called as witnesses?" Burke nodded assent. "You're on!" he agreed. "Then, here goes!" Garson cried; and he looked expectantly toward the stenographer. The strain of it all was sapping the will of the girl, who saw the man she so greatly esteemed for his service to her and his devotion about to condemn himself to death. She grew half-hysterical.
"You don't understand," she said, with nervous feverishness; "you remember after that row I had with Jim, that night the manager gave us a supper, when he treated me like a dog?" "He did that," interrupted Jack. "I felt fit for anything," she said, with a half-hysterical laugh, that seemed voiced, however, to check some slumbering memory. "I'd have cut my throat or his, it didn't matter which"
I left the glare of that office, its heat and half-hysterical activity, and went into the coolness and quiet of the darkened street, and there the dread left me that it could be a duty of mine to keep hot pace with patriots in full stampede. The stars were wonderful. It is such a tranquillizing surprise to discover there are stars over London.
And then she clapped her hands again and laughed in that half-hysterical, half- musical way of hers till we all joined in and made the echoes of the old hall ring again.
A few more seconds of whirling chaos, and she felt land under her feet, and Blake half-carrying her to the bank. They had been swept on to one of the many sand-banks which ran out into the stream, and were safe. Half-hysterical, she sat down on a huge log, and waited while Blake ran up-stream to give help to the coachman.
The formidable aristocrat and millionaire was dead. Everything went on along the usual lines. The customary stir and unceremonious bustle, instead of cautious whispering, rose around the dead body, in preparation for a fashionable funeral. No near relatives were present except his wife, and she was confined to her room, half-fainting, half-hysterical.
And so ludicrous did such testimony of common every-day life, of the habits which Strahan would necessarily have contracted in his desultory unluxurious bachelor's existence, so ludicrous, I say, did these homely details seem to me, so grotesquely at variance with the wonders of which I had been reading, with the wonders yet more incredible of which I myself had been witness and victim, that as I turned down the passage, I heard my own unconscious half-hysterical laugh; and, startled by the sound of that laugh as if it came from some one else, I paused, my hand on the door, and asked myself: "Do I dream?
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