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She was allowed to sit up part of the day in a cushioned arm-chair, supported by pillows. Her healthy constitution was rapidly rallying. True, she was still weak, and the headache spoiled whole days and nights. Maria's gentle and thoughtful nature exerted a beneficial influence upon her, and she cheerfully welcomed Barbara, with her fresh face and simple, careful, helpful ways.
I went to Hyacinth's room to try to persuade her to go with us, in the hope that the fresh air along the river would cure her headache; but she had been at a dance overnight, and was tired, and would do nothing but rest in a dark room all day at least, that was her resolve in the morning; but later she remembered that it was Lady Lucretia Topham's visiting-day, and, feeling better, ordered her chair and went off to Bloomsbury Square, where she met all the wits, full of a new play which had been acted at Whitehall, the public theatres being still closed on account of the late contagion.
"I did not tell the truth for I feared you would not return, for no one who has gone there has returned, so I am patient about my headache." "Ala, go and get rice straw, and I will wash my hair." Not long after he went to wash his hair. When he finished washing his hair he went to get one lawed vine, and he went back home. He planted the vine by the hearth.
I'm too short for my other things to fit you." "Oh, I can get along. What's good for a headache? I'm nearly crazy with it." "Wine?" "Yes." "Wait a minute." Ida, with bedroom slippers clattering, hurried back to her room, returned with a bottle of bromo seltzer and in the bathroom fixed Susan a dose. "You'll feel all right in half an hour or so. Gee, but you're swell with your own bathroom."
He must go on there was his work his children but the heart had gone out of him. He sat alone all that evening in his dark, cold, comfortless study with his head bowed on his hands. Up on the hill Rosemary had a headache and went early to bed, while Ellen remarked to St. George, purring his disdain of foolish humankind, who did not know that a soft cushion was the only thing that really mattered,
One of the commonest causes of this group of recurrent and self-limited headaches is fatigue, whether bodily, mental, or emotional. This was long an apparent stumbling-block in the way of a poison theory of headache, but now it is one of its best illustrations.
Hardy acknowledged to himself that the Solicitor-General pleaded his own case very well; but yet he felt that it wasn't law. For some days after the intimation of her mother's purpose, Lady Anna kept her bed. She begged that she might not see a doctor. She had a headache, nothing but a headache. But it was quite impossible that she should ever marry Earl Lovel.
Katharina's whole being was in wild revolt; she did not know how she was able to return Heliodora's greeting, and to ask her how she could possibly play the lute with a headache. "Just gliding my fingers over the strings calms and refreshes my blood," she replied pleasantly. "But you, child, look as if you were suffering far worse than I. Did you come home in the chariot that drove up just now?"
"Timéa, you are unwell?" asked Timar, tenderly. "There is nothing the matter with me," answered she. "Don't believe her; ever since we came to Levetinczy she has suffered from headache. It is neuralgia, which she contracted by overtaxing her brain, and by the bad air here. I found a white hair in her head the other day.
But it was not Joan, it was Stella Croyle. "I thought you had such a bad headache," said Lady Splay, after a perceptible pause. "It's better now, thank you," said Stella, and coming down the remaining steps, she advanced towards Harry. "How do you do, Colonel Luttrell?" she asked. For a moment he was taken aback.
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