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An excited little man ran into the dingy room, and began a whispered conversation with the tired dyspeptic. 'But, my God! said the latter, in a tearful voice; 'I must have it I've got my men to pay. At this everybody pricked an ear. 'It's all right, old man, said the other. 'Here's the cheque, and it's as good as the Bank of England. But I've only just this minute got it.
The spectacle was adroitly arranged to move the hungry to yearning, the filled to regret, and the dyspeptic to rage and remorse. And behind the show-window lay a shop whose shelves, counters and floor were clean as toil could make and keep them, and whose air was saturated with the most delicious odors. Mrs. Brauner nodded. "Heilig was up at half-past four this morning," she said.
Because some dyspeptic Greek dreamed of three pitiless old weavers, blind to human tears, deaf to human petitions, why should we wise and enlightened people of the nineteenth century scare ourselves with the skeleton of Paganism?
"If a preacher chooses to be savage; to write from dyspeptic or neuralgic states; to send his congregation, unshrived, to the nether regions why, I shrug my shoulders and let it pass. Most likely, on the next Sunday, he will be full of consideration for tender consciences, and grandly shut the gate he threw open so widely on the last occasion.
Mr Bates never saw his niece in the post-office, and regrets it to this day. The engagements arose partly out of business relations. Poulton who was a dyspeptic, complained that nothing could be got through in London without eating and drinking; for his part he would concede a point any time not to eat and drink, but you could not do it; you just had to suffer.
Middle-aged merchants have a great fancy for such horses; their action recalls the swaggering gait of a smart waiter; they do well in single harness for an after-dinner drive; with mincing paces and curved neck they zealously draw a clumsy droshky laden with an overfed coachman, a depressed, dyspeptic merchant, and his lymphatic wife, in a blue silk mantle, with a lilac handkerchief over her head.
"Alma, too intemperate and prolonged diet of sweets has ruined your digestion; has rendered you an ethical dyspeptic. A surfeit of sugar betrays itself in fermentation, and you have reached the stage of moral acidulation." "Ah, don't drift into homiletics! I see your marron grows hard by the vineyard where sour grapes flourish.
I know that Laura Hunter is fairly wild about him and she is a chronic dyspeptic, luckily," my step-mother added with a malicious chuckle. "Poor girl!" I exclaimed with well feigned sympathy, "I should think she would not care to see any one she liked under such trying circumstances."
"Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud. She silvered in the moon." This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe. But the prospectors in the mining camps of the Far West, and the builders of new cities understand what Emerson meant.
I gather that he is futurist by inclination, and dyspeptic by nature, which I take to be a more or less natural sequence of events. At present he adorns my office, and looks intense." "He sounds rather like a disease," murmured the Brigade Major. "From what you say, I gather he considers himself an artist." "He sculpts, or whatever a sculptor does when he gets busy." The Colonel smiled gently.
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