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"Have you met her?" asked Ishmael in surprise. "Why, yes. Her father seemed to think she was a little hysterical and asked me to see if she would talk to me...." "More talking ..." thought Ishmael. "I don't think her at all hysterical. It seemed to me more physical. In fact, I suggested Mr. Carron. But I think there's nothing like a thorough change. Her father'll miss her, I fear, though."
Thereafter the original plea merely for education became but a minor part of a larger demand for the franchise and for general equality; and instead of a sober emphasis on the necessity for learning, there was a somewhat hysterical clamour that women "should be admitted side by side with men into all the offices of public life with respect both to kind and degree."
"He Tom, back there insulted me. I " A burst of hysterical tears interrupted the confession. Meanwhile, seeing the turn events had taken, the pursuer had likewise stopped, and now he hesitated. "All right," replied Ben. "Go ahead! I'll see that the fellow doesn't trouble you again." And he started back. But the girl's hand was again upon his arm. "No," she protested, "not that way, please.
When he rode down the Hog's Back he saw the Happy Family bunched around some object on the creek-bank, and he heard the hysterical screaming of the Kid up in the house, and saw the Old Man limping excitedly up and down the porch. A man less astute than Andy Green would have known that some thing had happened.
But the hysterical rants of Lady Wishfort, the meeting of Witwould and his brother, the country knight's courtship and his subsequent revel, and, above all, the chase and surrender of Millamant, are superior to anything that is to be found in the whole range of English comedy from the civil war downwards. It is quite inexplicable to us that this play should have failed on the stage.
"I don't know why, but I do." My hand touching her own seemed to work a sudden transformation. She was instantly upon her feet facing me, drawing back a little against the grape arbor. "Do not take my words so seriously," she exclaimed. "I am excited, almost hysterical to-night. To-morrow I shall regret much I have done and said.
Once they became hysterical there would be no managing them. And, as she spoke she glanced sharply at Mollie, who had opened her mouth to say something, but had thought better of it. "But we're on a cake of ice!" cried Amy. "And, as the old wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood, so much the better to keep afloat with, my dear!" went on Betty gaily, a condition which she was far from feeling.
The explanation given of this extraordinary act by a modern historian is that "Japan was suffering at the time from an attack of hysterical loyalty, and the shrine at Ise being dedicated to the progenitrix of the country's sovereigns, it seemed to Nishino Buntaro that when high officials began to touch the sacred paraphernalia with walking-sticks, the foundations of Imperialism were menaced."
At the same moment, Blanche rushed between them, and flung her arms around Anne's neck. "Oh, Anne! Anne!" An hysterical passion of tears choked her utterance. Anne gently unwound the arms that clung round her gently lifted the head that lay helpless on her bosom. "Happier days are coming, my love," she said. "Don't think of me."
The poetic side of men of genius is feminine, and in Chopin the feminine note was over emphasized at times it was almost hysterical particularly in these nocturnes. The Scotch have a proverb: "She wove her shroud, and wore it in her lifetime." In the nocturnes the shroud is not far away. Chopin wove his to the day of his death, and he wore it sometimes but not always, as many think.
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