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"I said a cab was going up the hill," said Matty. "Oh, really! A cab is an interesting sight, particularly a Northbury cab. Shall I make a riddle for you on the spot, Miss Bell? What is the sole surviving curiosity still to be found out of Noah's ark?" Matty went off into her usual half-hysterical laughter. "Oh!
He was surprised by the curious look of her face a sort of piteous look, as of one ill at ease, and yet ashamed to speak. "What is it, child?" said he. She regarded him for a second with that piteous look; and then tears slowly gathered in her eyes. "Papa," said she, in a sort of half-hysterical way, "I want you to take me away from here. It frightens me. I don't know what it is.
Thrusting his head forward then, the stranger cried out, and his voice, which in his first words was deep and musical, suddenly, before he had uttered a full sentence, turned to a sharp, half-hysterical falsetto: "Why don't you say something to me, man?" he cried at the startled Waggoner. "For God's sake, why don't you speak to me? Even if you do know me, why don't you speak?
'My good fool, he interrupted, with a half-hysterical snort, 'let me assure you that the trouble will recoil on the other men! 'As you please, I went on. 'Anyhow, the chaps who got you into trouble are arrested, and the magistrate who arrested 'em asks you to dinner. Shall I tell him you're walking back to Aldershot? He picked some fluff off his waistcoat.
There was the usual sudden stampede of hurrying feet, the solitary oath and scream, the half-hysterical laughter, and silence. Then the tumult was reawakened to the sound of high voices, talking all together, or the impatient calling of absentees in halls and corridors.
The presiding genius of the room was method clear-headed, practical method. The walls were hidden by shelves of books, from the last half-hysterical production of some vain woman to the single-volume work of a man's lifetime. Many of the former were uncut, the latter bore signs of having been read and studied.
"But it was only lit-up steam," I said, talking as one experienced in such matters. "Then there is no more danger?" said Mr Denning. "No, I think not at present." "Why do you say at present?" cried Miss Denning, eagerly; and she caught my arm. "Don't say anything to frighten her, Dale," said Mr Denning; "she is half-hysterical now." "Indeed no, John dear; I am quite calm. Tell us, Alison.
The clock was a mental one, and the hours, minutes and seconds marked deeply on its face were emotions, strong and silent. The mental and physical condition of the rescued as they came ashore has, here again, been greatly exaggerated one description says we were "half-fainting, half-hysterical, bordering on hallucination, only now beginning to realize the horror."
So this is a conspiracy. You both are the flower of chivalry," and her mocking, half-hysterical laugh curdled Gus's blood, as her dress fluttered down the path that led to the arbor. She appeared in the doorway like a sudden, supernatural vision, Zell's head rested on Mr. Van Dam's shoulder, and he was portraying in low, ardent tones the pleasures of city life, which would be hers as his wife.
Kieff, who had been present with Guy, followed her almost immediately to her own room, and found her with a deathly face groping against the wall as one stricken blind. He took her firmly by the shoulders and forced her down over the back of a chair, holding her so with somewhat callous strength of purpose, till with a half-hysterical gasp she begged him to set her free.
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