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I felt at once that she was the sort of woman who could do what she liked at me. I attempted my only possible line of defence. "Aren't you afraid of influenza?" I said. "Is it wise ? "I'm not in the least afraid," said Miss Pettigrew. "Not for yourself, of course," I said. "But you might carry it back to Miss Battersby. I'm horribly infectious just now.
Birmingham was visited by a very severe epidemic of influenza, which was so general that few households escaped. Nor was the epidemic confined to mankind; horses were attacked, and the proprietor of "The Hen and Chickens" lost by death sixteen horses in one day. So many of the clergy and ministers were ill, that some of the places of worship had to be closed for a time. St.
He was far too agitated to think of shaking hands, and seemed to be in a state of fever. All his gestures were those of a proud, hysterical conqueror, and like a conqueror he gazed down at Edwin and Janet, who stood beneath him with upturned faces. He had absolutely forgotten the existence of his acquaintances in the carriage. "Did you know I've had the influenza?
"Now sit down like a good girl and listen to the rest of the will." "While I'm up I might as well get something else off my mind," I said. "I know what's in that will, but I hadn't anything to do with it, Mr. Van Alstyne. He took advantage of my being laid up with influenza last spring." They thought that was funny, but a few minutes later they weren't so cheerful.
She asked me to sit and talk with her because my voice was like the voice of her dead mother. BURGE-LUBIN. The complications must be frightful. Really I hardly know whether I do want to live much longer than other people. MRS LUTESTRING. You can always kill yourself, as cook did; but that was influenza. Long life is complicated, and even terrible; but it is glorious all the same.
Spraggon, which he thought would do. Thus he wrote: 'DEAR MR. SPRAGGON, 'I am sorry to be obliged to put you off; but since I came in from hunting I have been attacked with influenza, which will incapacitate me from the enjoyment of society at least for two or three days.
And that excellent Miss Bates! such thorough worthy people! How are they, sir?" "Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole. But poor Mrs. Bates had a bad cold about a month ago." "How sorry I am! But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. Mr. Wingfield told me that he has never known them more general or heavy except when it has been quite an influenza."
The Kanakas smiled on the performance; Herrick looked on heavy-eyed, hunger for the moment conquering all sense of shame; and a little farther off, but still hard by, the clerk was torn by the seven devils of the influenza. The captain stopped suddenly, appeared to perceive his audience for the first time, and represented the part of a man surprised in his private hour of pleasure.
Hay, having met the Indians on the way, returned the same evening; but they were so emaciated that I could scarcely recognise them, looking like so many spectres a metamorphosis caused by the influenza, at that time prevalent in the country.
But the fever had gone when morning came, which proves that there are more ways than one of curing influenza. He had cut short the career of the same disease at Awapuni Camp when out on an extensive movement one night near Feilding.
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