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'You're all right, aren't you? he asked, anxiously. 'I'm wonderfully all right, love, she answered. 'It's you I am a little troubled about, at times. 'Why me? he said, touching her cheeks delicately with the tips of his fingers. The touch had an almost hypnotizing effect on her. He went away upstairs. She saw him mount into the darkness, unseeing and unchanging.
Norcross," he said, "I came here to-night to take away this girl, whom I intend to marry, and I'm excited. Now listen Annette, I want you to listen also. Keep your mind upon me alone, dear, and remember I told you not to be frightened. This girl is ward of that she-devil there. Since her childhood, Mrs. Markham has been hypnotizing her for her own purposes.
The best method of hypnotizing is the one which relies essentially on the spoken word, awakening through speech the idea of the approach of sleep.
Human nature is, however, so constituted that a man of this type mostly succeeds in hypnotizing his hearers into sharing his estimate of himself, and impressing upon them the conviction that he is a rare being instead of a commonplace mortal. He is not a bad sort of person at bottom, and ready to do one a friendly turn—if it does not entail too great inconvenience.
The awakened expectation of sleep, the associated feeling of tiredness all help to cut off attention from the remainder of the world, but as no real sleep sets in, this cutting off from the remainder reënforces the focusing of attention on the one central idea of the hypnotizing personality.
The more common way of being negative while we allow our various forms of selfishness to positively govern us is, first in bewailing a weakness seriously, but constantly looking at it and weeping over it, and in that way suggesting it over and over to our brains so that we are really hypnotizing ourselves with the fault and enforcing its expression when we think we are in the effort to conquer it.
"Be careful, and keep on your guard, Hugh, or else he'll be hypnotizing you just like he seems to have done with poor Matilda and her husband. That slick tongue of his can do all sorts of stunts.
And all this while he was telling himself things; things like this: "Curlie, old boy, this is going to be strenuous. This man is powerful, magnetic, almost hypnotizing. He will find out as much as he can from you. He will tell as little as is necessary to attain his end. To him all life is a game, a game in which he conceals much and discovers all that lies in his opponent's hand.
I am only fifteen, and I am quite tall for my age. Oh! yes, I shall be tall." She came very close to the mirror and examined herself closely, hypnotizing herself little by little. She beheld herself under a million different aspects. Her whole life seemed passing before her, shadowy figures came and went one of them, the most persistent, seemed to keep stretching towards her long appealing arms.
Soames gripped the counter hard, staring at the newly arrived cocktail as though it were hypnotizing him. "These little matters," added Gianapolis, appreciatively sipping from his own glass, "which would weigh heavily against your other references, in the event of their being mentioned to any prospective employer"... Soames knew beyond doubt that his face was very pale indeed.
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