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The steam-doctor, who was the family physician, had warned her and her father separately of the danger of exciting Mrs. Anderson's most excitable temper, and now Julia was the slave of her mother's disease. That lucky hysteria, which the steam-doctor thought a fearful heart-disease, had given Mrs.
"Nell's bed is only large enough for herself, and she's like a feathers weight with those dark circles under her eyes too. I saw her flying about and absolutely going out on to the lawn this evening. Nell is a great deal too excitable, and certainly her sleep ought not to be disturbed." "I promise not to disturb it," replied Molly; "you know, Jane, I'm not an exciting sort of person."
Rachel, who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament, had a sharp touch of brain fever, and goes about the house now or did until yesterday like a black-eyed shadow of her former self. That was our first drama at Hurlstone, but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of butler Brunton. "'This is how it came about.
Betts, and he says they are very excitable people and very much in love. He can't tell what might happen." Newbury's face stiffened. "I think I know them as well as Coryston. We will take every care, dearest. And as for thinking of it why, it's hardly ever out of my mind except when I'm with you! It hangs over me from morn till night."
No girl in love talked so openly and joyously of the conquest won, least of all would her truthful, excitable niece, whom she had drawn into her own path, speak thus of the man who disturbed her repose.
Gregg's second wife, when he had brought her home to be a mother to Amy. The poor child suffered so much from the effect of the poison ivy that the other girls, and not alone those of her own grade, "just had to be sorry for Amy," as Mary Pease said. "To think!" said that excitable young girl. "She might even lose her eyesight if she's not careful.
She gave me an intimate smile; tall as she was, her face was almost on a level with my own, yet I still found her eyes unreadable, none of those quick tremors under the skin that register the emotions of excitable humanity. She remained a handsome, perfectly groomed, and entirely unruffled young woman. "Thank you," was all I said. "Mr. Vandeman and I understand how very, very serious this is.
Once or twice she put her hand against her side. 'How excitable you always were, little one! Lydia said. 'Come and sit quietly. It's bad luck when any one makes so much of a thing. Thyrza grew calmer. Her face showed that she was suppressing pain. In a few minutes she said: 'I'll just lie down, Lyddy. I shall be better directly. Don't trouble, it's nothing. Come and sit by me. How glad I am!
Demmed excitable little puppy," he added under his breath, "Faith, Ffoulkes, if that's a specimen of the goods you and your friends bring over from France, my advice to you is, drop 'em 'mid Channel, my friend, or I shall have to see old Pitt about it, get him to clap on a prohibitive tariff, and put you in the stocks an you smuggle."
In September of this year it was noticed that he had become excitable, and that his natural eccentricity was accented at times to the extent of rendering his conduct irrational.
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