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But he got no chance to deliver it, for Meg kept away from him till he came to say good night. "Remember!" she said, trying to smile, for the splitting headache had already begun. "Silence a la mort," replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away.
Cordova could not deny this, and fell back upon the idea of having an opera written for her, expressly to show off her voice, with a crescendo trill in every scene and a high D at the end; and Margaret Donne, who loved music for its own sake, was more disgusted than ever, and took up a book in order to get rid of her professional self, and tried so hard to read that she almost gave herself a headache.
Even in the light beginnings of my headache, I was already not myself; my thoughts followed no normal course, and I was aware of the abnormality. A few hours later, I was but a walking disease; my mind if one could use the word had become a barrel-organ, grinding in endless repetition a bar or two of idle music. What trust shall I repose in the soul that serves me thus?
"I ain't one that can bear flowers in a close room, they bring on a headache; but I enjoy 'em as much as anybody to look at, only you never know what to put 'em in. If I could be out in the mornin' sun, as some do, and keep flowers in the house, I should have me a gardin, certain," and she sighed again. "A garden's a sight o' care, but I don't begrudge none o' the care I give to mine.
She went back to the drawing-room and threw herself into the arm-chair where he had sat, and made her headache worse by thinking of all her unhappiness. The great room was filling with dusk, and in the twilight pictures gathered and dissolved.
"It may be," said the recluse, "that you have not yet fairly come to the end of yesterday, and that at the fag-end of some revelry it occurred to you that you might visit us and sleep away your headache at Serapis."
Miss Rosa has a headache, and we're keeping the house still for her to sleep. That's her window up there " And he indicated the rose-bowered window with the fluttering curtain. Dazed and half suspicious of something, Gardley folded the two letters together and crushed them into his pocket, wondering what he ought to do about it.
I fancied that I saw a number of their class outside listening to the address of the agent of a patent liniment, proclaimed to be an unfailing specific for neuralgia and headache, if used in the right spirit. "For," said the orator, "we like to cure people who treat us and our medicine with respect.
Suffering still with the splitting headache which he had been trying to sleep off, angry with Jim for his carelessness, concerned lest the man were really injured, Mr. Edwards was in his least compromising mood. "How did it happen?" he asked, without preface. His tones were harsh, and he fixed Jim with stern eyes. "How did it happen!" repeated Jim, in pure surprise.
Instead of replying, Richard dropped into a chair, and seized his hand and kissed it. Sir Austin took a seat, and waited for his son to explain. "Those doctors are such fools!" Richard broke out. "I was sure they were wrong. They don't know headache from apoplexy. It's worth the ride, sir, to see you. You left Raynham so suddenly. But you are well! It was not an attack of real apoplexy?"
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