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And with that came the tears a torrential rain, through which the lightning played and the thunder crashed. Miss White in real terror, left her, to get some smelling-salts, and the instant she was alone Elizabeth ran across the room and stood before her mirror; then she took a pair of scissors in her shaking hand and hacked off lock after lock, strand after strand, of her shining hair.
The operator first placed in a saucer some stuff which he explained was iodine. On to this he poured from a small bottle which smelt uncommonly like smelling-salts a small quantity of liquid, and then proceeded to stir the concoction up. The two students were not to be restrained from offering their services at this point, and Philpot yielded.
And indeed he looked so ghastly that she had to find smelling-salts and bring him some cold water to drink before she could go on. "I am very sorry," she said penitently, "and I will say what I have to say very quickly, if you will let me. You will not acknowledge the truth, I see, though it would be wiser if you would.
"Mother!" gasped the Pirate Prodigy. "My son!" screamed the Amazonian queen. They embraced. At the same moment a loud flop was heard on the quarter-deck. It was the forgotten mermaid, who, emerging from her state-room and ascending the companion-way at that moment, had fainted at the spectacle. The Pirate Prodigy rushed to her side with a bottle of smelling-salts. She recovered slowly.
But before the harbour lights had faded behind us a sympathetic mariner supported her limp form the feathers of her incongruous hat drooping in unison with their owner down the swaying cabin staircase and deposited her on a couch. "Oh! I do wish I hadn't eaten that fruit," she groaned when I offered her smelling-salts. "But then, you know, I was so hungry!"
"Madame, madame!" cried Valentine, calling her step-mother, and running up-stairs to meet her; "come quick, quick! and bring your bottle of smelling-salts with you." "What is the matter?" said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone. "Oh, come, come!" "But where is the doctor?" exclaimed Villefort; "where is he?" Madame de Villefort now deliberately descended the staircase.
Once on the balcony he was thought to be dying, his family keeping round his mat, his father exhorting him to be prepared, when Mrs. de Coetlogon brought him round again with brandy and smelling-salts.
"Father died five years ago," said Elizabeth. "You wicked girl!" said the maid. "Can't you see that Madam can't bear such talk? Go right out of the room!" The maid rushed up with smelling-salts and a glass of water, and Elizabeth in distress came and stood by the bed.
I brought smelling-salts, I rubbed her forehead with Savoy-water, and she soon opened her eyes, and seemed delighted to find me calm again. The thought of taking advantage of her helplessness would have horrified me. She sat up on the bed, and said, "You have just given a true proof of the sincerity of your affection." "Did you think, sweetheart, that I was vile enough to abuse your weakness?
Having been placed reverently in the brilliantly-lighted hall, they were surrounded by the proprietor, the maître d'hôtel and his assistants, the porters, and the chasseurs, with all of whom Mr. Greyne was now familiar. Brandy and water having been supplied, together with smelling-salts and burnt feathers, Mrs. Greyne roused herself from an acute attack of lethargy, and asked for Mr. Greyne.
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