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He regretted not having seen the nurse again: he felt sure she would have been interested in the working of the mills, and quick to notice the signs of discouragement and ill-health in the workers' faces; but a moment later his regret was dispelled by the thought of his visit to Mrs. Westmore.
The Prince de Leon had an adventure just about this time, which made much noise. He was a great, ugly, idle, mischievous fellow, son of the Duc de Rohan, who had given him the title I have just named. He had served in one campaign very indolently, and then quitted the army, under pretence of ill-health, to serve no more.
Salvey, but the child did not otherwise resemble her mother. It was evident that the name Wren fitted her well so small, so sweet, so timid, and with such a whispering voice! Then, her eyes were brown, her hair was brown and, in spite of ill-health, there was a gleam of color in her delicate cheeks. "What's this?" asked Cora, stepping over to the child and touching a book in her lap.
Day after day the boy drew greater music from the heart of his fiddle. He seemed to stride ahead under the power of the master; and as for Ventnor, he seemed beside himself with joy at what he called his "find." They grew to be friends. Archie confided his great discouragement of ill-health, his inability to attend school. "Me, I fix all that," answered Ventnor.
There the young lady quickly dropped her Boston method, and, acquiring a more conservative handling, became an excellent portrait painter; too soon, however, obliged to relinquish her art on account of ill-health. Cranch's landscapes now adorn the walls of private houses; very largely the houses of his numerous friends.
Raisky excused himself on the ground of ill-health, and spoke of his approaching departure. "Where are you going?" "It is all one to me," returned Raisky gloomily. "Here I am so bored that I must seek some distraction. I intend going to St. Petersburg, then to my estate in the government of R and then perhaps abroad."
They were so nearly of an age that already she felt herself his senior. As yet the difference was not visible; outwardly at least they were matched; but ill-health or unhappiness would soon do away with this equality. She thought with a pang of bitterness: "He won't grow any older because he doesn't feel things; and because he doesn't, I SHALL..." And when she ceased to please him, what then?
Balzac's ill-health Theophile Gautier and Victor Hugo Balzac's grief about the unfinished "Comedie Humaine" His interview with the doctor Victor Hugo's account of his death-bed Balzac's death and funeral Life afterwards in the Rue Fortunee Reckless extravagance House rifled at Madame de Balzac's death Fate of Balzac's MSS. His merits as a writer.
"Signora, as regards your latter question, the elector himself will have great pleasure in answering it. As regards the former, the Archduchess Antonia is handsome, but sickly, and her ill-health has lost her the affection of her husband." "Ah!" cried Lucretia, relieved, "he does not love her." "He loves her no longer," said the marquis.
William had a more difficult task in England, but he had the support of the Whig majority in Parliament and of the commercial classes; and he laboured hard, despite constant and increasing ill-health, to bring once more into existence the Grand Alliance of 1689.
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