1 Her faint became a profound slumber.
2 The moment it touched the stone the poor thing became quiet and fell all into a tremble.
3 As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.
4 It struck me as curious that the moment she became conscious she pressed the garlic flowers close to her.
5 When he saw me he became furious, and had not the attendants seized him in time, he would have tried to kill me.
6 In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness.
7 He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-lustre eyes.
8 At first she did not respond; but gradually she became more and more uneasy in her sleep, moaning and sighing occasionally.
9 Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me.
10 As it sank he became less and less frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor.
11 Fortunately the men came at a run, and were just in time, for at the stroke of noon he became so violent that it took all their strength to hold him.
12 With a rapidity which, at the time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to realize, the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed.
13 In a few minutes, however, my own ears got accustomed to the sound, and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able to descend and to stand before them.
14 Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible.
15 He petted and soothed them, and whispered something in their ears, as I have heard of horse-tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became quite manageable again, though they still trembled.
16 Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.
17 I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to have my hands free that I might help her, I fastened the shawl at her throat with a big safety-pin; but I must have been clumsy in my anxiety and pinched or pricked her with it, for by-and-by, when her breathing became quieter, she put her hand to her throat again and moaned.
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