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Her eyes, I saw, were fixed; and she moved her arms, as if she were addressing some imaginary being. I concluded she was sleep-walking, and immediately she began to speak, as she paced backwards and forwards. Part of what she said I lost, but I could join together enough for conviction.
"What's the matter on ye?" were some of the volley of questions with which the people hailed their chop-fallen deputy on his return, crowding forward around him, plucking his sleeves and pushing him to get his attention, for he regarded them with a dazed and sleep-walking expression. Finally he found his voice, and said: "Squire says ez haow they didn' dew nothin."
However, I almost exclaimed aloud in my amazement, for the light from a window fell full on the figure ahead of me, and I recognised my cousin Ethne. She was sleep-walking, a habit she had had from her childhood, and which apparently she had never outgrown. For some minutes I stood there, undecided how to act, while she passed on down the stairs, out of sight. To wake her I knew would be wrong.
You see, auntie, I was here and you weren't, so I ought to know something about it." "It's no use arguing with you," replied Aunt Charlotte, loftily. "It's a clear case of sleep-walking as clear as any case I ever heard of. And then all that nonsense about raps! Of course, if you heard anything at all which I only half believe it was something beginning to give way in the roof. There!
I could not for an instant doubt Lucien's honesty, he was so pale, so frightened almost so touching in the alarm and excitement of his soul. Of course the only explanation that I could see was that he had written his novel in a sleep-walking state. "For certainly no printer could set up type from a manuscript that did not exist, to say nothing of printing it and sending out proofs.
He will have to have something for his digestion and eat less before going to bed in the future." And the next day the doctor was called in and gave Freddie something which broke up the sleep-walking to a very large extent. "I am glad you caught Freddie," said Nan, to her twin brother. "If you hadn't, I should always have believed that we had seen a ghost."
She must have told him of her sleep-walking adventure on the cliff, and that I knew all about it, and now he wants me to tell him what I know, so that he may understand. I hope I did right in not saying anything of it to Mrs. Westenra. I should never forgive myself if any act of mine, were it even a negative one, brought harm on poor dear Lucy. I hope too, Dr. Van Helsing will not blame me.
Of course no one is to blame if it is a case of sleep-walking, only it will be a great anxiety for the future. You had better get up now and dress. I will take these things down; they may help to explain what is such a puzzle to us all, and to relieve their minds."
The nearest I came to having my long-cherished revenge on Landon: Once, in the night, during my week's stay with him, I stepped from bed, sleep-walking, moving toward the room where he and Aunt Emily lay. But I bumped terrifically into a door half ajar, and received such a crash between the eyes that it not only brought me broad awake, but gave me a bump as big as a hen's egg, into the bargain.
She had sent for the doctor without my knowing it, and when he came they had found me out of bed and missing, and had begun a search. "'Sleep-walking, said the doctor. "All of us went back to the house, and the doctor told us some remarkable stories about the strange things people had done while in that condition.
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