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He lifted his badly crushed hat, and when he turned away Helen laughed, a half-hysterical laugh. His fierce energy had, so to speak, left her breathless; she was shaken by confused emotions. It was for her sake he had plunged into the quarrel, but she felt disturbed by his savageness. For all that, something in her approved, and it was really this that troubled her.
A sudden gust of wind closed the door behind them with a crash, and sent Mistress Thankful, with a slight feminine scream, forward into the outer darkness. But the baron caught her by the waist, and saved her from Heaven knows what imaginable disaster; and the scene ended in a half-hysterical laugh.
Yet if a census had been taken of her thoughts, not sex nor economics, not improving observations of the flora and fauna of western Massachusetts, would have been found, but a half-glad, half-hysterical acknowledgment that she had not known how tired and office-soaked she was till now, when she had relaxed, and a dull, recurrent wonder if two weeks would be enough to get the office poison out of her body.
The girl uttered a cry of distress, drew her hand away, and exclaimed in a half-hysterical voice: "No! What right have you?" "Every right! Do you know what your mother said to me her last words to me ?" "You mustn't tell me!" Her tones were softer. "Not to-day. If we meet again " "Of course we shall meet again!" "I don't know. Yes, yes; we shall. But you must go now; it is time I went home."
She shows no proper sense, and, as for you, I deeply regret you should have been brought into any contact with such a disgraceful story." "Freddie!" The Duchess went into a helpless, half-hysterical fit of laughter. But the Duke merely expanded, as it seemed, still further to his utmost height and bulk. "Oh, dear," thought the Duchess, in despair, "now he is going to be like his mother!"
For the last of many days the light-housekeeper had watched from his aerie for the coming of the fleet and had not been disappointed. His horse and buggy stood by the tower doorstep, and into it he leaped, whipping up the horse with the same motion. Then down the road he had flown like Paul Revere rousing the villagers, and followed by an excited, half-hysterical procession of women and children.
He therefore resents the presence of all strangers, and has no mental faculty for distinguishing between strangers, as such, and actual intruders whose presence is essentially undesirable." Helen May gave a little, half-hysterical laugh, and Holman Sommers looked at her keenly, as a doctor sometimes looks at a patient. "I am intensely sorry that my coming frightened you," he said gently.
It is wonderful that a great actor should neglect a passage that paints with one touch Hamlet's half-hysterical state. Given as it might be given, it would curdle the blood in your veins. I asked the best Hamlet it has been my fortune to see, why he left out these lines. "I have often thought I would speak them; but I don't know how." That was his answer, and a very honest one it was.
She talked, too, with a fluency that in any other woman would have aroused a suspicion of effort; but Alec was too glad that the marked depression of the morning had passed to give heed to her half-hysterical mood.
Even through his fury he heard quickened footsteps her light, reckless, half-hysterical laugh a bound upon the staircase the hurried unbolting and opening of distant doors, as the lighter one with which he was struggling at last yielded to his blind rage, and threw him crashing into the sitting-room. The back door was wide open.
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