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Suddenly a passion of remorse roused him out of his semi-stupefaction. "Michael, Michael!" he said, his voice hoarse, broken. "Don't say such a thing! Are you sure?" Michael nodded. "I'm sure. I got it from one that's known Erris Boyne and his first wife and girl one that was a servant to them both in past days. He's been down to Limerick to see Mrs. Llyn and the beautiful daughter.
My condition was one of semi-stupefaction, I think, with just enough of sense left in me to comprehend that if I uttered the least cry or struggled, no matter how faintly, I should transform him into a wild beast. Nothing but my lying corpse-like under the pressure of his knee saved me, I am certain.
Meanwhile, it was restful to remain in this state of semi-stupefaction. He was pretty tired. That whispering, he realized after a while, was nothing more than the monotonous murmur of rain upon a shingle roof, and the gurgle from dripping eaves. Oh yes! It had been pouring for several days; raining buckets, barrels Ten thousand barrels a day!
Suddenly a passion of remorse roused him out of his semi-stupefaction. "Michael, Michael!" he said, his voice hoarse, broken. "Don't say such a thing! Are you sure?" Michael nodded. "I'm sure. I got it from one that's known Erris Boyne and his first wife and girl one that was a servant to them both in past days. He's been down to Limerick to see Mrs. Llyn and the beautiful daughter.
As the key turned in the lock, Walford sank down in a state of semi-stupefaction upon one of the saloon sofas, listening like one in a dream to the distant sound of the men's voices and the occasional tramp of feet, as the mutineers passed, one by one, down the ship's side into the boats. A few minutes more and these sounds ceased.
"This announcement came upon me like a thunderbolt. I turned sick at heart my eyes grew dim my brain whirled I staggered and should have fallen had I not come in contact with a wall. It appeared to me afterward that sobs of ineffable agony fell upon my ears, while I was yet in a state of semi-stupefaction and methought likewise that a delicate, soft hand pressed mine convulsively for a moment.
Methods such as these are happily not in vogue in our own race, yet even among us large numbers of dabblers in this ancient art adopt some plan of self-hypnotization, such as the gazing at a bright spot or the repetition of some formula until a condition of semi-stupefaction is produced; while yet another school among them would endeavour to arrive at similar results by the use of some of the Indian systems of regulation of the breath.
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