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Updated: May 14, 2025
He ran downstairs and out into the street, took his stand under a projecting doorway nearly opposite the house which held the woman he loved, and leaning against the wall, he waited. After many hours it was then past three o'clock in the morning, and the sky of an inky blackness he felt so numb that despite his will a kind of trance-like drowsiness overcame him.
"I am the queen of sorrow, crowned and frozen on my desert throne," murmured the girl, in a trance-like abstraction. "Salome, my child!" said the mother-superior, gazing anxiously into her stony face, whose eyes had never moved from their fixed stare; "Salome, my dear daughter, look at me." "'I am the star of sorrow, pale and lonely in the wintry sky." "My poor girl, what do you mean?"
He could not take his eyes from her, from her flushed, grave, receptive face, from her downcast, listening eyes, her slow, trance-like step as she waited for him to go on. He went on: "It becomes, my dear, I assure you the idea of that possibility becomes absolutely an obsession even to a man usually quite his own master "
As Pen-zephyr and all its environing scenes disappeared behind Mousehole and St. Clement's Isle, Baptista's ephemeral, meteor-like husband impressed her yet more as a fantasy. She was still in such a trance-like state that she had been an hour on the little packet-boat before she became aware of the agitating fact that Mr. Heddegan was on board with her.
Gordon lowered his chin and rested it on his hand, while a dreamy tone came into his voice, softening it to its lowest notes, and a trance-like look overspread his face. "And then I recalled that I had been deceiving you and myself and another. I faced for the first time honestly the fact that I was madly in love with a woman not my wife "
I was most happy to smooth the way for him, and he came repeatedly after this to see me and express his satisfaction in the opportunities for study he enjoyed at Cambridge. He was a dark, still, slender person, always with a trance-like remoteness, a mystic dreaminess of manner, such as I never saw in any other youth.
A trance-like weakness fell upon me; I saw, heard, and felt, but I was incapable of movement. I heard the struggle roll to and fro upon the floor, the yells of the catamount ringing up to heaven as she strove to reach me.
"'Soul of God's best earthly mould." The sweet voice left a trance-like silence after it, which may have lasted twenty heart-beats. Then I said, We all thank you for your charming quotation. How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart."
But I noticed that they answered my companion in a dull, trance-like way, as though our questions concerned no one so little as themselves. "They're fugitives," he repeated to me. "Been burnt out of their farm by the Bosches near the Menin ridge." "Are they all alone?" I asked. He put some further questions. "Yes, their only son was shot by the Germans when they billeted there." "Why?"
Before entrusting herself to him, Mildred had told him that, in spite of her apparent good health, she was occasionally subject to long trance-like fits, resembling sleep; should this happen, it would be useless to call an ordinary doctor, but that a Miss Timson, a well-known scientific woman and a friend of hers, must be summoned at once.
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