This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...somnambulist. Her presentiments even in her ordinary state were wonderfully correct. She was a prophetess if ever there was one, and in a state of clairvoyance, her vision was transcendent. Mondel looked steadily at her, made a few passes, smoothed her hair, and murmured in a gentle but imperious tone the word ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...somnambulist. Her presentiments even in her ordinary state were wonderfully correct. She was a prophetess if ever there was one, and in a state of clairvoyance, her vision was transcendent. Mondel looked steadily at her, made a few passes, smoothed her hair, and murmured in a gentle but imperious tone the word "Sleep!" In a few minutes, the eyes of the somnambulist opened with that glassy look peculiar to magnetized persons, and Mondel put his all-important question. "Yes," replied the somnambulist, "yes, I see the island--it is gold, all gold--but, in the centre, there is" At this moment, they were interrupted by the arrival of Cope, and despite his interest in the question he was propounding, Mondel's thoughts were so distracted by the idea of news from Columbia, that he did not hear the remainder of the reply. A new idea struck him--he signed to Cope to excuse him, and put, in a low voice, a new question to the somnambulist. After a long pause, the somnambulist replied, as if with a great effort, her brows painfully contracted. "She loves you as you are, and hates you as you seem." "A truly Delphic Oracle;" said Cope, smiling. "I see hope in the distance," said Mondel, abstractedly. "It must be beyond the horizon then;" said Cope, bluntly, anxious to cure his friend of what he considered a fatal monomania. "What do you mean?" "I saw Miss Columbia this morning. I spoke of the poem you published last week, and said you were looking ill of late." "And she?" "Changed the subject and asked me if I had been to the opera lately!" "The devil!" exclaimed Mondel. "Yes, love is the devil, and so is hate. Believe me, that if a woman...
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