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He lifted his arm above his head; the great fist was clenched, and the cruel mouth was drawn at both corners. "Get out of here before I hit you!" Helen stood petrified. The blow had fallen. Mother Moll was right! She retreated before his menacing gestures, but stopped near the door and held up her hand in entreaty. She'd make one more effort. "But, Ebenezer," she began, "where shall I go?"
Moll puts her hands behind her, and drawing a long lip and casting round eyes at us over her shoulder, walks along very slowly by her father's side, while he broaches the matter to her. To all he has to tell she listens very attentively, but in the end she says something which causes him to stop dead short and turn upon her gaping like a pig. "What!" he cries as we came up.
Herr Parish next contends that people who see pictures in crystal balls, and so on, are not so wide awake as to be in their normal consciousness. Herr Moll also speaks of crystal-gazing pictures as 'hypnotic phenomena. Possibly neither of these learned men has ever seen a person attempt crystal-gazing.
Pap ain't much on dressin' me up. Mr. Lapelle he promised me a new dress but say, who air you?" "I am Mrs. Gwyn, Moll." "I might ha' knowed it. You're her ma, huh? Well, I guess you'd better go on away an' let me alone. I ain't axin' no favours off'n " "I am not trying to do you a favour. I am only trying to make you a little more presentable. You are going up to town, Moll."
At the same time he whispered me in the ear to take notice of a tabby cat that sat in the chimney-corner, which, as the old Knight told me, lay under as bad a report as Moll White herself; for, besides that Moll is said often to accompany her in the same shape, the cat is reported to have spoken twice or thrice in her life, and to have played several pranks above the capacity of an ordinary cat.
We take Moll to Greenwich; but no great happiness for her there. In the midst of our heroics I was greatly scared by perceiving a cloaked figure coming hurriedly towards us in the dim light. "'Tis another, come to succour his friends," whispers I. "Let us step into this hedge." "Too late," returns he. "Put on a bold face, 'tis only one."
Moll states that a method of hypnotizing horses named after its inventor as Balassiren has been introduced into Austria by law for the shoeing of horses in the army. We have all heard of the snake charmers of India, who make the snakes imitate all their movements. Some suppose this is by hypnotization. It may be the result of training, however.
Moll Ryan trudged up the steep "bohereen" whose banks were overgrown with thorn and brambles, and stooping under her burden, re-entered her door, where her dark-haired daughter Nell met her with a welcome, and relieved her of her hamper. Moll Ryan looked round with a sigh of relief, and drying her forehead, uttered the Munster ejaculation: "Eiah, wisha! It's tired I am with it, God bless it.
There were not a few aged bucks, painted and powdered and patched, aping the airs and graces of younger gallants, who could remember Charles II. and Moll Davies. They were startled when they heard Lavinia's liquid notes in the old ballad they felt that for a brief space they were recovering their youth. As for the rest, they were conscious of a pleasant surprise.
And out of this swift estimate grew a new pity for poor Moll Hawk, the pity one feels for the vanquished. "You will be surprised to find how many friends you have, Moll," he said gently. There was no indication that she was impressed one way or the other by this remark. She drew back from the window and faced him, her eyes keen and searching. "Do you reckon anybody is listenin'?" she asked.
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