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More precious, in fact, because we would have had no reason to hate the cask. And we hated James Wait. We could not get rid of the monstrous suspicion that this astounding black-man was shamming sick, had been malingering heartlessly in the face of our toil, of our scorn, of our patience and now was malingering in the face of our devotion in the face of death.
I would have dined here, but I have a man to meet me at the Club. Of what mortal service is it shamming the insensible? You've produced the required effect, I am as uncomfortable as I need be. Absolutely! "Well," seeing that words were of no avail, he summed up expostulation and reproach in this sigh of resigned philosophy: "I am going. Let me see I have my Temple keys? yes!
Those quiverings of the tarsi, those awakening movements of the palpi and antennæ are the obvious proof of a genuine torpor, now coming to an end, a torpor similar to that induced by ether but less intense; they show that the insect struck motionless by my artifice is not shamming dead, as the vulgar idiom has it and as the fashionable theories repeat. It is really hypnotized.
'A sham dragon, shamming sleep, has destroyed more virgins than all the heathen emperors, says old Hans Aepfelmann of Duesseldorf. Margarita's foot was tapping quicker. 'Speak, Dietrich! she said. Dietrich declared to the Club that at this point he muttered, 'We love you. Margarita was glad to believe he had not spoken of himself.
In an hour another turnkey came and relieved Hodges in another hour Fry relieved him, for this was tiresome work for a poor turnkey in another hour a new hand relieved Fry, but nobody relieved No. 19. Five mortal hours had he been in the vice without shamming.
Deane and Adams had put into that early revolver of theirs, and he could not have come down much quicker with my bullet in his spine. "Now, then," I said, "what the devil do you mean by shamming deaf and dumb?" "I niver said I was owt o' t' sort," he whimpered, cowering behind the chair in a sullen ague. "But you acted it, and I've a jolly good mind to shoot you dead!" Where's your wife?"
"Didn't she seem all right as soon as she got out of my sight?" "No, sir; she seemed pretty badly upset." "What about?" "Oh, something entirely outside of rehearsal, sir," Packer answered in haste. "Entirely outside. She wanted to know if I'd heard any gossip about her husband lately. That's it, Mr. Potter." "You don't think she was shamming just to get off?" "Oh, not at all. "Ha!
With plenty of food, and blows daily, Englishmen soon get stomachs for the right way to play the game; bowl as well as bat; and the sooner they give up the idea of shamming sturdy on a stiff hind leg, the better for their chances.
"Well, he ar'nt deaf, a'ter all; I thought he was only shamming a bit. I say, Jacob, this is the weather to blow your fingers, and make your eyes bright." "Rather to blow a cloud and make your eyes water," replied Tom, taking up the pot: "I'm just as thirsty with swallowing smoke, as if I had a pipe myself at all events, I pipe my eye.
The hospital staff generally believe that the man is not "shamming," as many circumstances seem to preclude that theory. His memory is perfect as to everything back to March 3d. The theory of hypnotism was advanced in explanation of this case.
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