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How about pity for me? His over-wrought nerves gave way, and, throwing himself into the chair, he broke down completely and, forgetting the manhood of which he was so fond of boasting, cried like a baby. Captain Elisha turned away, to hide his own emotion. "It's hard," he said slowly. "It's awfully hard for you, my boy. I hate to see you suffer this way."
She did not tell him of the strange marriage-scene which she had witnessed the day before when Milly, almost hysterical from over-wrought feeling, had vowed to be a true and faithful wife to the man who had pitied and succored her in the time of her sorest need: of Johnson's stolid demeanor, covering a totally unexpected fund of good-feeling and romance; or of his extraordinary desire, which Lettice had seen carried out, that the baby should be present at its mother's wedding, and should receive poor little mite a fatherly kiss from him as soon as he had kissed the forlorn and trembling bride.
But the over-wrought mind of Sister Seraphine, suddenly convinced of the futility of its hopeless rebellion, passed, in that moment, altogether beyond control. With a shout of wild laughter, she flung back her head, pointing with outstretched finger at the crucifix. "Death! Death! Death!" she shrieked, "helpless, hopeless, terrible!
There were over-wrought pictures of daring sin and terrible punishment; novels and plays laying bare the misere of the social conflict; tragedies of insurgent passion at war with conventional ideas; of true love crossed and done to death by the prejudice of caste. And so forth.
Upon over-excited nervous systems and Heaven knows that to have nerves is no longer an aristocratic privilege! words do not produce the same impression as under normal conditions. And quite as truly, simple language does not suffice the man of over-wrought sensibilities when he tries to express what he feels.
Forget for a little while that children want music lessons, and boots, and bicycles, with tincture of rhubarb three times a day; forget there are such things in life as cooks, and house decorators, and next-door dogs, and butchers' bills. Go away to some green corner of the earth, where all is new and strange to you, where your over-wrought mind will gather peace and fresh ideas.
"You were over-wrought, Miss Vaughan," he said, "and straight from a spell of crystal-gazing. No wonder it impressed you. But it was really only a clever trick." "I realise, now, that it must have been a trick," she agreed; "but at the time it seemed an unquestionable proof of his divine power.
Then another form appeared between us fighting to keep him back. They fought there under the burning sun in the hot dust of the desert until at last one was crushed to earth. The victor raised his face to mine, and it was Jack." Echo buried her face in her hands. Dry sobs shook her bosom. Awe-stricken, Polly gazed at the over-wrought wife. "PFEW!" she laughed, to shake off her fright.
She gets nervous, over-wrought, and is sometimes driven out of her new home in search of excitement. The woman who marries on a small income and has plenty of work to do is not so liable to this unfortunate development. The husband should be prepared for the effect of this uprooting on his young wife. He must not grudge her the little diversions that will help to pass the time while he is away.
Either the pupil is spurred on to preternatural acuteness and becomes a credit to his parents and his teachers, or he succumbs entirely to the benumbing influence of an over-wrought intellect and is rendered unfit for the great physical struggle for existence. What is the Talmud, this sacred literature of Israel?
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