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Updated: June 26, 2025
I was amazed to witness the crass ignorance and astounding superstition displayed by the Emperor of Russia, whom all Europe believed to be a progressive, wideawake monarch. That he possessed a spiritualistic kink, as did also his German wife, was quite apparent. Any bogus medium or charlatan could easily impose upon him.
This was mine, with a knot at the end." She gave a smart pull, and the bobbin rattled loudly inside the box. They could hear it plainly, even through the closed door. "What is that?" The question came in an anxious and wideawake tone from within the room. "I don't know. Oh, there it is again!" The voice this time was Effie's. "It sounds as if it were under the bed!" "Oh, surely it's not a rat!"
At the first magazine he purchased a cheap wideawake, and had the disorder of his toilet summarily repaired. The keepsake, still rolled in the handkerchief, he thrust in the meantime into his trousers pocket. Not many steps beyond the shop he was conscious of a sudden shock, a hand upon his throat, an infuriated face close to his own, and an open mouth bawling curses in his ear.
I borrowed the vicar's wideawake, ostensibly for a conjuring trick, and wore it assiduously for the rest of the afternoon and, on his demurring to such use, I explained, in the voice of G.P.Huntley, that it went so well with the nose. In short, I played the mountebank to a degree that astonished myself, but apparently to some purpose, for the money came in properly.
My reverend teacher was a tall, muscular man of about forty years of age, with a full dark-brown beard, and long lank hair falling over his shoulders. The visible parts of his dress consisted of three articles a dingy-brown robe of coarse material buttoned closely at the neck and descending to the ground, a wideawake hat, and a pair of large, heavy boots.
The Tillicum was seventy-six hours at sea! "Matthew," Matt Peasley murmured to himself, "'theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' and all in one thundering big hurry!" Cappy Ricks was having his siesta, with his feet on top of his desk, when Matt Peasley came bounding in, seized him by the shoulder and shook him wideawake.
He wore a blue suit and a light gray wideawake, and his fine moustache was grizzled. In his left hand he carried a brown bag. 'Nicely, thank you, sir, Tom replied. 'How are you, sir? 'Oh, about six and six. Whereupon both porters laughed heartily. Tom escorted him to the bureau, and tried to relieve him of his bag. Inferior lords escorted Tom. 'I guess I'll keep the grip, said the stranger.
I told Barton what I had done, at the same time cautioning him to guard the closest secrecy. Two days afterward the letters arrived, and I directed my protege to spread the news as much as possible, to tell all the warders he saw and to show them his letters. We had at that time in the prison a wideawake but tricky fellow named George Smith.
There are few books that leave more distinctly the impression of a mind teeming with riches of many kinds. It is, in the Yankee phrase, thoroughly wideawake.
Some asked for High Church waistcoats, others for Low; some wished for wideawake hats, others for broad-brimmed clericals. Some sent extra money for a school- boy's suit as well, and some contained instructions for a complete family outfit. All were very eager about the matter, and one or two begged that the parcel might be sent marked "private."
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