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Sophie had never seen Cornelia in hysterics before, and was tortured with alarm and apprehension. She knew not what to do, for every attempt she made to relieve her, seemed only to make her worse. "Let me call papa he must be somewhere in the house he will know what to do!" she said, at last, trembling and white.
And yet if Toodlam was a couple of thousand a year, it was all it was: and there were two unmarried sisters! Lady Pomona went half into hysterics every time she saw her younger daughter, and became in her way a most oppressive parent. Oh, heavens; was Mr Brehgert with his two houses worth all this? A feeling of intense regret for the things she was losing came over her.
"It isn't faintness or illness exactly but it's all so hazy," stammered the girl breathlessly. "And I've forgotten who I am. I've forgotten where I live and a man has been following me oh, ever so long." The weariness in the tone of the last words caused Constance to look more closely at the girl. Plainly she was on the verge of hysterics.
Red Pete, in stormy hysterics, had included her in a sweeping denunciation of the whole universe, possibly for simulating an emotion in which she herself was deficient. The other women hated her for her momentary exaltation above them; only the children still admired her as one who had undoubtedly "canoodled" with a man "a-going to be hung" a daring flight beyond their wildest ambition.
These presents had scarcely been made them, when we had reason to apprehend so sudden an influx of wealth might produce serious effects, especially upon the women, whose joy threw them into immoderate fits of laughter, almost amounting to hysterics, which were succeeded by a flood of tears. The men seemed thankful, though less noisy in the expression of their acknowledgments.
Spaghetti and black coffee again for dinner, which Antha would not eat even though the crackers were gone. But by supper time her hunger got the better of her and she ate spaghetti without a murmur. "That shows she could have eaten it right away if she wanted to," whispered Sahwah to Gladys. That night it thundered and lightninged, and Antha nearly went into hysterics.
Her mother, in one of the tightly cut suits she affected, had never been more like a perfect companion. They saw, in the window of a store for men, a set of violent purple wool underwear, and barely escaped hysterics at the thought of Mr. Moses Feldt in such a garb. They giggled idiotically at the spectacle of a countryman fearfully making the sharp descent from the top of a lurching omnibus.
"Bring de peppermint," suggested Othello. "Miss Clorindy, dear Miss Clorindy, what am it?" cried Dolf, with a sudden sinking at his heart. Clo would have had hysterics, but not being a fine lady, she gave two or three yells, kicked the table, pulled her frizzed hair, and shouted, amid her tears: "You Sally, git my bunnit quick!" She rose, and they crowded about her. "Whar be you gwine? What's up?"
But, Margaret Frederick! At the mention of that one word, she suddenly cried out loud, as in some sharp agony. It seemed as if the thought of him upset all her composure, destroyed the calm, overcame the exhaustion. Wild passionate cry succeeded to cry 'Frederick! Frederick! Come to me. I am dying. Little first-born child, come to me once again! She was in violent hysterics.
No wonder she had hysterics! It was galling beyond compare, and not all Mr. Hanbury-Green's devotion or flattery next day could heal the bitter hurt. "Oh, how I will help you, Percy!" she said, "to pull them all down from their pedestals, and drag them to the guillotine!" And Mr.
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