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A few professional inquiries, directions about the treatment, now and then a brief order to me, too peremptory to be a compliment, not to over-tire myself, or to go home to rest, this was all our intercourse. And yet, in spite of his guarded looks and words, I was often triumphant, even happy. Outwardly, and to all appearance, I was left alone, but I knew that it was far otherwise in reality.
The latter was now so far restored as to be able to sit a mule, but lest the riding should over-tire him they proceeded at little more than an ambling pace along the lovely valleys of the Metauro. Thus it befell that when night descended it found them still journeying, and some two leagues distant from Urbino.
Now we went sixteen hours very steady, and with naught save the great darkness to trouble us; and we by this to have been twenty and six hours since last that we had sleep; and surely this did be a foolishness, because that I to need that I come into my full strength, ere we reach the Night Land; and it to be a folly that I should over-tire myself; and the Maid to have said so much.
The rest, being strict Roman Catholics, think it wrong." "Are you quite sure last night did, not over-tire you? You are certainly disposed to be argumentative this morning." "I think," suggested Narcissus, buttering his toast carefully, "you might at least hear what Dorothea has to say." "Oh, certainly! Indeed, if she has been committing me to her projects, I have a right to know the worst."
I had a shrewd notion that a person who would cater to every whim of my husband's mother would be little better than a slave. She spent so much time over the old letters in Washington's handwriting, the snuff boxes and keys and coins with which the cases were filled that I was alarmed lest she should over-tire herself.
"You are nervous," he said. "You have been sitting in a sick-room too long: I must not let you over-tire yourself. You will be better when we leave Netherglen. Go and dream of blue skies and sunny shores: we will see my native land together, Kitty, and forget this desert of a place. There, go now. I will take care of Aunt Margaret."
It is true they are easy for me now, but I can remember the time when they were difficult. The only alternative is to work constantly at them. Of course they are more difficult for small hands; so care must be taken not to strain nor over-tire the hand. A little at a time, in frequent doses, ought in six months to work wonders. Rowing a boat is good to develop wrists for octave playing.
'We must be careful not to over-tire him, He looked very pale when he went upstairs. I've thought lately that he must suffer more than he tells us. 'Yes, I'm afraid he often does, Jane assented, as if relieved to speak of it. 'Yet he always says it's nothing to trouble about, nothing but what is natural at his age.
She opened a low cupboard beside the fireplace, took out a tea-pot, and put some tea into it. 'You'd have a long walk, I suppose, continued the woman, 'and delightful weather for it, too. But you must mind as you don't over-tire yourself. You don't look very strong, if I may say it. 'Oh, I am very well, was the mechanical reply. After a few more remarks the landlady took away the teapot.
'I finished it this morning, said the Ambassador, in her ear. 'To-morrow I shall begin it again. My daughter hates the sight of the thing. She says I over-tire myself, and that when old people have done their work they should take a nap. But I know that if it weren't for my dictionary, I should have given up long ago.
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