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In this malady the patient must be prepared at any moment for death." "Then it is incurable?" "Yes, sire," faltered Quarin, his tears bursting forth afresh. The emperor looked thoughtfully before him, and for some time kept silence. Then extending his hand with a smile, he said,
Was it an impossible dream? Sec. 2 Is this disease of Parliaments an incurable disease, and have we, therefore, to get along as well as we can with it, just as a tainted and incurable invalid diets and is careful and gets along through life? Or is it possible that some entirely more representative and effective collective control of our common affairs can be devised?
This often lets in an unwelcome daylight on the subject, and breeds schisms, coldness, and incurable heart-burnings in families.
For a year past, summer and winter, she had lived in this apartment facing the Falls; her nurses found her very patient under the incurable disease which had declared itself; Daphne came to stay with her when arduous engagements allowed, and Madeleine was always grateful and affectionate. But certain topics, and certain advocacies, had dropped out of their conversation not by Daphne's will.
This train-fever is, of course, only a symptom. It proceeds from that apprehensiveness of mind that is so common and incurable an affliction. The complaint has been very well satirised by one who suffered from it. "I have had many and severe troubles in my life," he said, "but most of them never happened." That is it.
This was the disaster which brought so much suffering to Constance in her incurable pride. Beauchene, since the death of his son, had quite abandoned himself to a dissolute life, thinking of nothing but his pleasures, and taking no further interest in his establishment. What was the use of defending it, since there was no longer an heir to whom it might be transmitted, enlarged and enriched?
"I heard of an individual who had been on the parish on account of his incurable laziness, till the mayor losing all patience with him, had him transported to these cave-dwellings and left there. There he settled down, picked up a wife, and had a family. "These people live quite outside the law, and are quit of all taxes and obligations.
The mothers who brought children whom others had declared incurable how tense these moments of waiting must be for them! The husband and wife who came together to find out whether she would have to have the operation how many of the crucial moments of life were lived in such places as this! The power in these doctors vested!
The wife's good health and the husband's illness seemed to the doctor to be satisfactorily accounted for by this theory. "Then what is the matter with my poor Cibot?" asked the portress. "My dear Mme. Cibot, he is dying of the porter's disease," said the doctor. "Incurable vitiation of the blood is evident from the general anaemic condition." No one had anything to gain by a crime so objectless.
Certainly she had hitherto accounted among the incurable deficiencies of Edward's disposition the mauvaise honte which, as she had been educated in the first foreign circles, and was little acquainted with the shyness of English manners, was in her opinion too nearly related to timidity and imbecility of disposition.
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