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"Quick, that crocus sack," he called. "Ah promised the kids to bring one home. Give him a switch, Mitchell." The 'possum, rousing from the semi-stupor into which the smoke and the shock of his fall had thrown him, was beginning to struggle violently. Robertson broke a finger-thick stick and thrust it between the snapping jaws, that clamped upon it fiercely.
It was terrible work, and I had to make a severe call upon my courage before I made the first effort. For it was like this: I was quite exhausted and in a state of semi-stupor, combined with drowsiness.
This semi-stupor gradually wore off, my half-consciousness between long sleeps growing less and less blurred, my faculties more alive, my personality emerging. When I came entirely to myself I found Tanno seated by my bed. "You're all right now, Caius," he said, "I have kept away till Galen said you were well enough for me to talk to you." "Galen?" I repeated, "have I been as ill as all that?"
He returned home, livid, and did not make his appearance again until the following day, after having remained sixteen hours shut up in his room, lying in a semi-stupor on the bed, across which he had thrown himself, dressed as he was. On the afternoon of this day Clotilde, who was sitting beside him in the study, sewing, ventured to break the oppressive silence.
But the thought of his father, and of the probable fate that awaited him, at length overbore all other considerations, and threw the poor boy into such a state of despair, that he clung to the life-preserver for a long time in a state of semi-stupor. At last the day dawned faintly in the east and the glorious sun arose, and Orley's heart was cheered.
IN this position Jack slept off and on, or rather, dozed into a kind of semi-stupor, from which he awoke with a start now and then, as he thought be heard again the mingled cries of devotion and malediction. At last he slept soundly, and awoke refreshed, but hungry.
He lay on his bed with his shoes off, trying to make up his mind. He did not reach out for a book. He was too tired to feel sleepy, and he lay, scarcely thinking, in a semi-stupor of weariness, until it was time for supper. Joe did not appear for that function, and when Martin heard the gardener remark that most likely he was ripping the slats off the bar, Martin understood.
Some were lying on their mats in semi-stupor, several who had just received an injection were patiently awaiting their dreadful sleep one of the chief attributes of cocaine is its almost immediate effect. Here was a group squatting round a man armed with a syringe fatal germ-carrier busily engaged in mixing the cocaine and morphia.
The next morning, when he came in, he found the patient lying as ever, in a sort of heap in the bed. Nurse had had to lift him up and hold him up again. And now Aaron lay in a sort of semi-stupor of fear, frustrated anger, misery and self-repulsion: a sort of interlocked depression. The doctor frowned when he came. He talked with the nurse, and wrote another prescription.
The remaining space on the card was left blank to receive the statement of regimen, etc. A nurse was giving the patient an iced drink. After swallowing feebly, the man relapsed into a semi-stupor, his eyes opening and closing vacantly.
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