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Lady Channice repeated: "you think that they atone if they make part of an illicit passion?" "I don't think that they atone; but they may redeem it, mayn't they? Why do you ask me?" Augustine smiled; "You know far more about these things than I do." She could not look at him. His words in their beautiful unconsciousness appalled her. Yet she had to go on, to profit by her own trance-like strength.
At the corner of Sloane Square a man coming towards her saw her trance-like condition, and stopping short, forced her almost to run into his arms. "I beg your pardon," she began mechanically, and then her face changed. "You, Gerald! How d'ye do?"
He threw himself, dressed as he was, upon his bed never perceived the absence of his favourite the candle was allowed to burn itself to the socket, and Vanslyperken fell off into a trance-like sleep. In which Mr Vanslyperken proves false to the Widow Vandersloosh, and many strange things take place. Mr.
They are true observers of the weather, and before the approach of a change move their camps so as to obtain a sheltered position. They do not seem to give the slightest thought to cause or effect, and would, I believe eat and pass away their time in a sort of trance-like apathy.
She was a small-moulded woman, you could see now: her limbs, like those of a cat, or animals of that tribe, from their power of trance-like quiet, gave you the idea of an intense vitality: a gentle face, pretty, the villagers called it, from its waxy tint and faint coloring, you wished to do something for her, seeing it.
Then it contracted swiftly, sucking in its sound until it left only a reverberant echo, which died upon the farther bank. Silence crept down again over the wet country; the faint dripping resumed, and suddenly a great shower of drops tumbled upon Gloria stirring her out of the trance-like torpor which the passage of the train had wrought.
Matthew Arnold, ever sensitive to such spiritual states, has described these trance-like visitations in 'The Buried Life'
The vigils and the terrors of that fearful night wrought their work on the lonely woman, and she sank into a trance-like slumber upon the naked earth, with her babes nestling in her lap and the dog, her noble guardian, crouching at her feet. She awoke with the first light of morning to the terrible realities from which for a few brief hours she had had a blessed oblivion.
Fainter, almost imperceptibly, came a rap! rap! For several minutes the old man sat absorbed in thought, trance-like. Then, gradually, he seemed to realise that we were in the room with him. With difficulty he took up the thread of the conversation where the rappings had broken it. "We were talking about the photographs," he said slowly.
"Nothing is impossible," said the doctor, "very interesting case; keep up the strength, nurse." Everything was done that was possible for poor Cardo; the nurses were unremitting in their care and attention, but nothing roused him from his trance-like stupor.
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