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The white ants, when uncovered, scampered about with great celerity, hiding themselves under the leaves, but attracted little attention from the black marauders till one of the leaders caught them, and, applying his sting, laid them in an instant on one side in a state of coma; the others then promptly seized them and rushed off.
Speech was intended; and as the Old Gentleman had heard the sounds nine times before, he rightly construed them into Stuffy's old formula of acceptance. "Thankee, sir. I'll go with ye, and much obliged. I'm very hungry, sir." The coma of repletion had not prevented from entering Stuffy's mind the conviction that he was the basis of an Institution.
Between long periods of fevered coma Cal Maggard opened his eyes weakly and had strength only to smile up at the face above him with its nimbus of bronze set about the heaviness of dark hair or to spend his scarcely audible words with miserly economy. Yet as he drifted in the shadowy reaches that lie between life and death it is doubtful whether he suffered.
"I'll sell my outfit soon as I can, I won't punch cattle for no damn' man, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a! "I'm goin' back to town to draw my money, I'm going back to town to see my honey, Coma ti yi "
Magee thought of adding that he had felt it might be dangerous to place a package so voraciously desired in her frail hands. He decided he'd better not, on second thought. "I know," he said, "what you think. I'm a fine specimen of a man to send on a hunt like that. A weak-kneed mollycoddle who passes into a state of coma at the crucial moment. But I'm going to give you that package yet."
He lay with closed eyes, breathing nasally. Ho-Pin, his face a smiling, mirthless mask, bent over the bed. Adeptly, he seized the right eyelid of M. Max, and rolled it back over his forefinger, disclosing the eyeball. M. Max, anticipating this test of the genuineness of his coma, had rolled up his eyes at the moment of Ho-Pin's approach, so that now only the white of the sclerotic showed.
The delusions one gets as one sinks into the coma, for example, are of quite a peculiar type delusions of wealth and of absolute power, most exhilarating and magnificent. I think myself a millionaire or a Prime Minister. Be sure you make a note of that in case I die. If I recover, of course I can write an exhaustive monograph on the whole history of the disease in the British Medical Journal.
Not much sleep that night, a sort of feverish coma instead: wild dreams in which I and the gendarme were attacking a German trench, the officer in charge of which we found to be the Base Camp Adjutant after all. However, I got up early packed my few belongings in my valise, which had mysteriously turned up from the docks, and went off on the tram down to Havre.
Both injections and electricity had entirely failed to influence the paralysis of Sophia's mouth and throat. Everything had failed. "Nothing to do but wait a bit!" said the doctor quietly. They waited in the chamber. Sophia seemed to be in a kind of coma. The distortion of her handsome face was more marked as time passed. The doctor spoke now and then in a low voice.
Burnham, using the Lick telescope, in 1890 made the distance 0.7"; Hall, using the Washington telescope, in 1891 made it a trifle more than 0.5". He had measured it in 1886 as only 0.27". The period of revolution is believed to be about twenty-five years. In Coma Berenices there is an outlying field of the marvelous nebulous region of Virgo, which we may explore on some future evening.
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