And thus too , it happened , perhaps , that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence , there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware aware of the presence presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before .

It was n't till after he had spoken speak that he became aware aware of how much there had been in him of response ; when the tone of her own rejoinder rejoinder , as well as the play play of something more in her face -- something more , that is , than its apparently usual restless light -- seemed to notify him .

The next he knew , he was dimly aware aware that his tongue was hurting and that he was being jolted jolt along in some kind of a conveyance .

On the contrary , a painful heaviness heaviness possessed him when he became aware aware how little real sorrow was in his mind , and how small an actual loss loss was this loss loss of his wife , which bulked before the world as an event event of just as much magnitude as the loss loss , for example , which poor Mr Lake , the drawing-master , was at the same moment suffering .