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"I know who your beau is," Floretta Vining, who was in advance of her years, said to her once, and Ellen looked at her with half-stupid wonder. "His first name begins with a G and his last with a J," Floretta tittered, and Ellen continued to look at her with the faintest suspicion of a blush, because she had a feminine instinct that a blush was in order, not because she knew of any reason for it.
I thought of all this in a half-stupid way, while I sat in the railway-carriage with my arm round Tom's neck and my head leaning on Pierson's shoulder. We had never cared very much about Pierson, but now that she was the only thing left to us, we began to cling to her very much.
It was at this point that Savaroff, who had been regarding us with the half-stupid stare of a man who has newly recovered consciousness, staggered up unsteadily from his chair. His half-numbed brain seemed suddenly to have grasped what was happening. "Verfluchter Schweinhund!" he shouted, turning on me. "So it was you, then " He got no further.
They stood grouped together in utter helplessness, looking at the work of ruin with a half-stupid air; almost like the animals who had been hustled from one place of shelter to another, and were evidently lost in wonder as to the cause of their removal. But presently, as the awful scene before them grew more familiar, the instincts of self-interest arose in each breast. Mrs.
He had on his head a rusty cotton night-cap; as he had no cravat, his neck was visible, red with cold and wrinkled, in contrast with the threadbare collar of his old dressing-gown. His worn face had the half-stupid look that comes of absorbed attention. His lips, like those of all men who work, were puckered up like a bag with the strings drawn tight.
He searched in the darkness for the weapon, and indeed there were enough and to spare now, for the bomb which had lit in the chamber, and had exploded in that confined space, had damaged not a few of the defenders. It had stunned the majority of them, in fact, so that now, as they manned the barricade, they were half-stupid, more than half-deafened, and hardly knew what had happened.
We have been shipwrecked on this island for two weeks and you are the first human beings we have seen. Can you tell us how we can get away?" Still the boy stared and the gypsy woman made menacing gestures. The boy was about sixteen. He had handsome features and wavy black hair, but a strange, half-stupid expression. "Why don't one of you speak?" demanded Madge in her impatient fashion.
The patrician suspended his purpose as he heard it, mechanically listening with the half-stupid, half-cunning attention of intoxication. 'Help! help! shrieked the voice beneath the palace windows 'he follows me still he attacked my dead child in my arms!
He had thrown himself upon a sofa, and sat, half-reclining, with his head upon his bosom. "Are you sick, dear Theodore?" his young wife asked, in a tone of deep and earnest affection, laying her hand upon him, and bending down and kissing his forehead. "Yes, I am sick, Constance," was the half-stupid reply "Come, then, let me assist you up to bed.
"What's the matter?" was the reply; and the boy gazed in his face in a dazed, half-stupid way. "Don't you remember, lad?" "No," was the reply. "Where's the ridgment?" "Over yonder. Somewhere about the mouth of the valley, I expect." "Oh, all right. What time is it?" "I should think about five. Why?" "Why?" said the boy. "Because there will be a row. Why are we here?"
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