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I advise thee, Sosia, to delay no longer: seize her ere she quit the garden now! 'Ah! runaway! I have thee eh? said Sosia, seizing upon the unhappy Nydia. As a hare's last human cry in the fangs of the dogs as the sharp voice of terror uttered by a sleep-walker suddenly awakened broke the shriek of the blind girl, when she felt the abrupt gripe of her gaoler.
Such is the reaction of an empiricist mind upon the rationalist bill of fare. It is an absolute 'No, I thank you. "Religion," says Mr. Swift, "is like a sleep-walker to whom actual things are blank."
The season seemed to stand on the edge of a precipice, will-less, like a sleep-walker. Now and then the sound of a falling leaf caught my ear, and I shall always remember how a crow, flying high overhead towards the mountains, uttered an ominous "caw"; another crow answered, and there was silence again. The branches dropped, and the leaves hung out at the end of long stems.
The sight of Lady Macbeth, while it makes us shudder, will also make us rejoice in a good conscience, when we see her, the sleep-walker, washing her hands and seeking to destroy the awful smell of murder. Sight is always more powerful to man than description; hence the stage acts more powerfully than morality or law. But in this the stage only aids justice. A far wider field is really open to it.
"My sister is a sleep-walker," I said, and waited, with the sound of the sea and the band and the multitude in the near distance booming in my head. "Even last night I awoke to find our door open," I added. "She had wandered in her sleep." I had said it; but I declare to you, Berthalina, the effort left me weak as a baby.
He stopped in his halting speech, for Joan had stood up and was moving across the room, her eyes fastened on the letter in his hands. She had the air of a sleep-walker. She opened a drawer of her desk, took out an old tin box, once used for tobacco, and drew forth a small, gray envelope torn in two.
Kate would as well have been proven guilty and convicted, for all the difference the verdict of the coroner's jury made in the staring crowd that parted to let her pass as she came from the inquest. She had untied her horse with the unseeing eyes of a sleep-walker and was about to put her foot in the stirrup when Lingle came up to her.
The person whom you preferred to me has been long in a better world, where your unavailing regret cannot follow him, or, if it could, would only diminish his happiness." "You are mistaken, Lord Evandale," said Edith, solemnly; "I am not a sleep-walker or a madwoman. No, I could not have believed from any one what I have seen. But, having seen him, I must believe mine own eyes."
She started like a sleep-walker suddenly awaked from her trance, passed her hand over her eyes, and said, as she bowed her head before the governor: "Forgive me, Uncle, I am sorry for what has occurred but it was too much for me. You know what my past has been, and when I am reminded when I must listen to the praises even of the wretches to whom my father and brother. . . ."
As he drew the bolt, Tom Ingoldsby emerged from his hiding-place; but the sleep-walker heard him not; he proceeded softly downstairs, followed at a due distance by his friend; opened the door which led out upon the gardens; and stood at once among the thickest of the shrubs, which there clustered round the base of a corner turret, and screened the postern from common observation.
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