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Yet it is doubtful whether there is really much truth in such a claim and whether much wise psychotherapy can be deduced from it. We may begin even with the very justifiable doubt whether nervousness really has increased in our time. Earlier periods had not so many names for those symptoms and were not able to discriminate them with the same clearness.
"Well, I'm not Old Scrooge, anyhow, if I'm not as good as poor Henry Vail." I do not know whether it was the reaction from the punch he had drunk, or the sudden shock of Vail's death, or the troubled conscience, or from all three, but when he got into bed he found himself shaking with nervousness.
"Very good indeed," said the Colonel, laughing; "they thought you were a ghost, dear Count! I fancy I see traces of alarm and nervousness about Angelica's face still, and Moritz looks as though he had scarcely shaken off the excitement of the story he was telling. Even Dagobert does not seem quite in his ordinary spirits.
It was not fear, but what I call nervousness, unreasoning, but irresistible; as when, for instance, one looking at the sun going down says, "I will count fifty before it disappears"; and as he goes on and it becomes doubtful whether he will reach the number, he gets strangely flurried, and his imagination pictures life and death and heaven and hell as the issues depending on the completion or non-completion of the fifty he is counting.
There he is, scanning the clown's parade with the eyes of an anxious hawk, disgruntled nervousness plain in every line of his body. Then Oliver remembers that he saw a slim Chinese girl in loose blue silks go off the floor ten minutes or so ago with a tall musketeer.
I told her that my leave was up at seven o'clock, and that at 7.15 I had to be back on board the boat. She remembered this, and in an instant the past quarter of an hour might never have existed. She was all agitation and nervousness lest I should be late on board though at the moment I would have cheerfully missed the boat to hear her say she loved me. I tried to protest, but in vain.
Johns had now got his battery to work, and the sight of his shells bursting among the hedges and shrubs fired his Celtic enthusiasm and dissipated the nervousness he had felt in the colonel's presence. "Look at that! isn't that a fine burst?" he called, clutching my arm, "and see that one. Isn't it a topper?"
And she laughed at Anna-Felicitas with an air of mutual understanding. "Will you have tea or coffee?" asked Anna-Felicitas nervously. "Or perhaps you would prefer frothed chocolate. Each of these beverages can be " "Delicious, delicious," said Mrs. Wangelbecker, enveloping Anna-Felicitas in her smile. "The frothed chocolate is very delicious," said Anna-Felicitas with a kind of grave nervousness.
Here an old groom touched his hat, and said, curtly, "Too hot and fidgety, miss. I'd as lieve ride of a boiling kettle." Walter explained: "The poor thing is the victim of nervousness." "Which I call them as rides her the victims," suggested the ancient groom. "Be quiet, George. She would go sweetly in a steeple-chase, if she didn't break her heart with impatience before the start.
The latter, who had begun to collect himself, had a strange light in his eyes. Without doubt his companion's nervousness marked the moment he was awaiting to strike a decisive blow. He rose with so sudden a start that Dorsenne drew back.
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