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Good health is always attractive; ill-health, invalidism, nervousness, are very apt to be repellant. Better good health than beauty, if one were obliged to choose which one is not, for good health is one of the chief elements of beauty.
A shuddering nervousness came across him, and, for a few moments, be sat as if he were upon the point of fainting.
Evelyn could not help feeling exasperated, but when Etta stumbled the moment after from sheer nervousness, and Evelyn caught hold of her hand, she realized from its hot trembling grasp how hard it is to come back to life again. Henrietta would probably never have found the right spot, if a timely attack of rheumatism had not persuaded her to fix on Bath.
The shop-boys, slipping their arms into their long coats and dusting off their trousers and shoes after the Peking manner with their long sleeves, made one feel in a rather laughable sort of way that finality had been reached! They had that curious half-laugh on their faces which signifies an intense nervousness being politely concealed.
She tried to slip them in her bosom while Ryder was busy at the 'phone, but he suddenly glanced in her direction and caught her eye. She still held the letters in her hand, which shook from nervousness, but he noticed nothing and went on speaking through the 'phone: "Hallo, Jefferson, boy! You want to see me. Can you wait till I'm through? I've got a lady here. Going away? Nonsense!
She had caroled to her father about nearing the Pacific. Her nervousness had expressed itself in jerky gaiety. But when he had sneaked away for a nap, and Claire could no longer hide from herself by a veil of chatter the big decision she had made on the station platform, then she was lonely and frightened and very anxious to undecide the decision. She could not think clearly.
It was just behind the shop, I knew, it smelt so of leather. It was doubtless the sitting-and eating-room of the saddler's family. Monsieur set his candle down on the big table in the middle; then, on second thought, took it up again and lighted two iron sconces on the wall. "Pray sit, mademoiselle, and rest," he bade, for she was starting up in nervousness from the chair where he had put her.
Tollman was obviously expecting his visitor, and received him upon arrival in his austere study. Yet the fact that there was no element of surprise in Mr. Hagan's coming failed to relieve Mr. Tollman of traces of nervousness as he inquired, "You are Mr. Hagan?" "Yes, Mr. Tollman, I came up in answer to your letter." The stranger had no roving eye.
Almost the sight of her would cure one of nervousness, she is so calm and quiet." This was what Mark said, and again the next morning Mrs. Banker's carriage stood at the door of No. Madison Square, while Mrs. Banker herself was talking to Wilford in the library, and urging that Helen be sent for at once. "It may save her life.
"Fear gone, too?" asked the doctor. "I seemed to have forgotten it, or at least ascribed it to mere nervousness. Its reality had gone, anyhow for the time, and all that day I wrote and wrote and wrote. My sense of laughter seemed wonderfully quickened and my characters acted without effort out of the heart of true humour. I was exceedingly pleased with this result of my experiment.
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