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"Dying; dead, perhaps," he groaned, in an agony of excitement, and then and there he swore that, upon the arrival of Witherspoon he would leave the cave of his enemies, await his fate, and bear Irma Gluyas away to farther and fairer lands. The long morning dragged on in a semi-stupor as he sat there listening to the hollow footfall of the casual passers-by.
When all was still the Voice began to chant again, and the flames blazed higher and brighter, while the cobra resumed its mystic dance. Amber knelt on in a semi-stupor, staring glassily at the light and the serpent. "I, thine old Mother, have called ye together to help in my healing. From my feet to my head I am eaten with pestilence; yea, I am devoured and possessed by the Evil.
"You don't respect your old father," he cried, in a whining tone "you take advantage of my helplessness, all of you you ill-treat me and deny me the very comforts of life! I'll tell I'll tell the doctor," he continued, as his voice subsided into an almost inaudible tone, and he sank back into the chair in a state of semi-stupor.
He had been sitting in a state of semi-stupor all the evening, his chaotic mind utterly confused and bewildered by the events which had taken place; but now, on being called, his usual audacious and irrepressible spirit came to his aid, and he answered: "O King, I hear! O King, your Majesty would make the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak!
He went about in a state of semi-stupor, and even his most serious business affairs could not efface Ellen's picture from his mind. Her breath warmed the air around him throughout the day, and made him hasten home. At table at home they had secret signs that referred to their secret world.
Still rapt with his vision the minister rose, and permitted himself to be guided to the carriage. Once inside he fell into a semi-stupor. Only at the hospital, where Dr. Merritt was waiting to see him safe within the isolation ward, did he come to his rightful senses, cool, and, as ever, thoughtful of everything but himself.
In ten minutes Lady Eileen Meredith, in charge of a doctor and a motherly-looking matron hastily summoned from the adjoining police station in Cannon Row, was being taken back to her home in a state of semi-stupor. Foyle picked up the dainty little revolver from the floor and, jerking the cartridges out, placed it on the mantelpiece. "You can never tell what a woman will do," he said to himself.
Then one afternoon, as I lay in a sort of semi-stupor beneath one of the bushes that had yielded me a fair number of berries, a sharp gust of wind aroused me, and looking around me I saw, whirling across the bare dunes towards me, a huge cloud of thick opaque dust, gathering up the loose sand as it sped, whirling high in the air and blotting out the whole sky with its dense volume, snatching up, carrying away, and burying deep again, all that came in its path.
The kind gentleman sat by his bedside, and grieved to find that Pambe talked in strange tongues, instead of listening to good books, and almost seemed to become a benighted heathen again till one day he was roused from semi-stupor by a voice in the street by the dock-head. 'My friend he, whispered Pambe. 'Call now call Nurkeed. Quick! God has sent him!
Lying there in the sort of semi-stupor that comes from utter exhaustion, I listened to him moving about in the larder apparently getting things ready. For the moment all thoughts of danger or recapture had ceased to disturb me.
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