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• When Frenside had left her Halo tried to collect her thoughts; but his visit had shaken her too deeply. He had roused her out of her self-imposed torpour into a state of hyper-acute sensibility, and detaching her from the plight in which she was entangled had compelled her to view it objectively.
• The climate and country were such as to gratify every appetite for pleasureable sensation, without enervating or relaxing the frame, or allowing the mind to sink into an Asiatic torpour.
• How could I describe, relate that sweetish discharge, half vanilla, half hen’s blood, the essence of fern sap and foul sweat, like my own sweat when I would touch myself and shiver, mouth and nostrils gaping wide, during certain nights of torpour, deep satisfaction and incomprehension, deep down in my bed?