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I will confess that the jealousy which is easily aroused among servants when one of their number is treated with any special courtesy gave me some concern, and I was at the pains of explaining to the household not only the grave indisposition from which the Muse suffered, but also the obligation I was under to her on account of her virtues: which were, her long and faithful service, her willingness, and the excess of work which she had recently been compelled to perform.
But the holidays will come. Coraggio." Her temporary engagement in this uncongenial family ended in the July of this year; not before the constant strain upon her spirits and strength had again affected her health; but when this delicacy became apparent in palpitations and shortness of breathing, it was treated as affectation as a phase of imaginary indisposition, which could be dissipated by a good scolding.
"You are not well, I fear," said Mrs Patrick. "I will go with you"; and next moment the enemy was gone, and the doctor and his boys were together. Dr Patrick, who, to tell the truth, seemed scarcely less relieved than his visitors, made no attempt to apologise for Miss Stringer's sudden indisposition, and embarked at once on a friendly talk about school affairs.
And the members of the small community who form the European population take a personal pride in the amenities of their beautiful retreat, with its perennial verdure, and glory in their "splendid isolation." Criticisms are resented, and suggestions of indisposition due to climatic influence held to be little short of traitorous.
Charlotte responded, at any rate, that his indisposition to go out had lately much increased even though to-night, as she admitted, he had pleaded his not feeling well. Maggie had wished to stay with him for the Prince and she, dining out, had afterwards called in Portland Place, whence, in the event, they had brought her, Charlotte, on.
"The next morning, the duke sending out parties to bring off the wounded, I was found almost expiring with loss of blood; notwithstanding which, as immediate care was taken to dress my wounds, youth and a robust constitution stood my friends, and I recovered after a long and tedious indisposition, and was again able to use my limbs and do my duty.
The next morning she went into her mother's chamber to put her resolves in execution, but she found Madam de Chartres had some touches of a fever, and therefore did not think proper to speak to her: this indisposition however appeared to insignificant, that Madam de Cleves made no scruple after dinner to visit the Queen-Dauphin; she was in her closet with two or three ladies of her most familiar acquaintance.
Want of self-restraint was his complaint leading to a surfeit of fruit and other things, which terminated in a severe fit of indigestion and indisposition to life in general. He was smoking that being a sovereign and infallible cure for indigestion and all other ills that flesh is heir to, as every one knows!
She was now detained in her Apartment 'by indisposition; and did not leave it during the eight days the festivities lasted." Catharine, blessings on it! From that day the Czarina sat brooding her wrongs and her perils, wrongs DONE, very many, and now wrongs to be SUFFERED, who can say how many! From May 5th onwards, we can suppose Peter to be, perhaps rather rapidly, on the declining hand.
Instead of that, the night's debauch produced its natural consequences, feverishness and indisposition, which, by the aid of a bad proverb, and worse company, were removed by the very cause which produced them.
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