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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was plain then that they were not at rest at any stage; and yet the slight humming vibration, of which he had been conscious before he fell asleep, and even during one or two moments of semi-wakefulness during the night, this had ceased. The car hung here, like a floating balloon, motionless, purposeless far up out of sight of land, and an absolute silence hung round it.
Betty's voice was low and excited as she shook her friend into semi-wakefulness. "The boys have to catch the early train, you know, and we mustn't keep them waiting." "Yes, I know," said Grace, waking to full consciousness without a protest for the first time since Betty had known her. "What time is it, Betty?" "Six-thirty," answered Betty, beginning to dress hurriedly.
In her strange state of semi-wakefulness, she could hardly distinguish between what she actually saw and what she only seemed to see in fancy. When she reached the pasturage, there were no cows to be seen. And she began to search for them, as she had done in the dream looking down by the brook, under the birches, and behind the brushwood.
Once or twice during the night Quashy rose to replenish the fires, for the jaguars kept up a concert that rendered attention to this protection advisable; but he did it with half-closed eyes, and a sort of semi-wakefulness which changed into profound repose the instant he tumbled back into his hammock.
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