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"But the torn tent and the wounded flesh?" "When she did not sleep deep enough to enter the somnambulistic trance he missed her he went instinctively and in all innocence to seek her out with the result, of course, that she woke and was terrified " "Then in their heart of hearts they love?" I asked finally. John Silence smiled his inscrutable smile.
Under the influence of any strongly-disturbing force, Clare would occasionally walk in his sleep, and even perform strange feats, such as he had done on the night of their return from market just before their marriage, when he re-enacted in his bedroom his combat with the man who had insulted her. Tess saw that continued mental distress had wrought him into that somnambulistic state now.
I knew nothing of what progress the Germans might have made with hypnotism, but unless they had gone further than had the outer world, now that I was on my guard, I believed myself to be safe. But there was yet one danger. I might be trapped in my sleep by an induced somnambulistic conversation. Happily I was fairly well posted on such things and believed that I could guard against that also.
What a lark!" I hastened to explain that Davidson was in a kind of somnambulistic trance. Boyce was interested at once. We both did all we could to rouse the fellow out of his extraordinary state. He answered our questions, and asked us some of his own, but his attention seemed distracted by his hallucination about a beach and a ship.
The cook, with his eyes still closed, crawled back again the moment they left him, and though they had him out twice after that, he went back in the same somnambulistic state and resumed his slumbers. Brittlesea was thirty miles astern when he at length awoke and went on deck, and the schooner was scudding along under a stiff breeze.
Women, more than men, are subject to this strange, somnambulistic, mental condition, the result of strong emotion, in which they both do and endure to an extent that men would never think of or find possible.
Makkabesku was a very long time coming to, but he contrived at last, in a very tremulous voice, to tell Hátszegi the somnambulistic case of the double shots, nay he called Heaven to witness that Fatia Negra had caught the bullets in his hands as if they were flies. "You're a fool," cried Hátszegi angrily. "I suppose you fired above his head on both occasions."
She stood still a moment, clutching the limp folds of her skirt, until the young man returned; then she took a step forward. "I've come to tell what I know about the shootin'. I saw it," she faltered. The somnambulistic young man shut one eye, and inclined his ear toward her without turning his head. "Shooting? What shooting?" "Up in Sawpit Cañon Mr.
Was it possible that his very presence in the house had touched some old note of memory, which, automatically responding, had carried her from her bed in this somnambulistic trance?
"Your hand is burning, child. You are in a fever. What is the matter?" Cecil coldly withdrew it, in the same somnambulistic manner, and said she would lie down; and Mrs. Rolleston went out, hurt by her want of confidence, and much bewildered by many events of that day. Lola next invaded her, sent by Bertie to entreat for admission. "He only just wants to come in for a minute, and see how you are."
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