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"Don't look so alarmed, my dear girl," he answered lightly; "I am well enough; that is to say, I am never ill, never knock under, or strike work. There are men who go through life like that never ill, and never exactly well. I rarely get up in the morning without a headache; but I generally brighten considerably as the sun goes down. We move with a contrary motion, Helios and I."
She frowned him silent, and then shut herself outside with him long enough to whisper, "Say she's got a headache, or anything you please; but don't stop talking here with me, or I shall go wild." She then shut herself in again, with the effect of holding him accountable for the whole affair.
"Well, I can't make head or tail of it," said Nugent, rising and pacing the room. "I came here to meet my father. So far as I remember I had one drink of whisky your whisky and then I woke up in your bedroom with a splitting headache and a tongue like a piece of leather. Can you account for it?" Mr. Wilks shook his head again. "I wasn't here," he said, plucking up courage.
"We had just come home and our friend had had bad news and was going away early in the morning and we were getting her ready and I went out in the back entry way to get something and just then Veronica came in the back door." "You thought she had gone home with a sick headache and was in bed?" "Yes," replied Sahwah, "but when she came in I decided she had been out for a walk."
Again he would respond: "Don't forget that I love some one down there, old man. Maybe she's worrying about me, as well as about you." Once he gave poor Mr. Hobbs a frightful tongue-lashing and was afterward most contrite and apologetic. Poor Hobbs had been guilty of asking if he had a headache.
'Bong jour, Marky, says I. 'Good morning no headache? says he. So I said I had one; and how I must have been uncommon queer the night afore; but they both declared I didn't show no signs of having had too much, but took my liquor as grave as a judge. "'So, says the Marky, 'Deuceace has been with you; we met him in the Palais Royal as we were coming from breakfast. Has he settled with you?
"You'll think me a fright, John, with my hair brushed back like this" John stops this in a thrice as any ardent lover might, taking advantage of the professor's absence, and the fact that Aunt Gwen has gone back in the second room for another chair "but once in a great while I have a headache that will only succumb to a certain process. You will excuse me?"
I believe that he has at least three crimes upon his conscience... How pale you have become!" "I have a headache... But what did this Hermann or whatever his name is tell you?"
Taine her headache being wholly conventional gave herself unreservedly to the thoughts that she could not, under the eyes of others, entertain without restraint.
I don't care if he is my brother, that doesn't make me blind, does it? If he were my husband," she concluded passionately, "I'd feel just the same way about it." "Oh, you mustn't! Oh, Patty, hush, it's wicked! It's sinful!" moaned Mrs. Fowler, shutting her eyes, as if the sight of Patty's indignant loveliness gave her a headache. "Don't try to harden Gabriella's heart against him.
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