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The interest is never allowed for a moment to flag; it is wrought up first by the anticipation of the catastrophe, then by its description; and the intervening period, when it was actually going forward, is filled up by the recital of sublime lyric poetry, at once causing the stop of time to be forgotten, affording a brief respite to the overwrought feelings, and yet keeping up the enthusiastic and elevated state of mind in the audience.
I ran across to the dressing-table, whereon I perceived his flask to lie, and mixed him a weak stimulant with which I returned to the bed. As I bent over him again, my housekeeper appeared in the doorway, pale and wide-eyed. "There is no occasion for alarm," I said over my shoulder; "Mr. Smith's nerves are overwrought and he was awakened by some disturbing dream. You can return to bed, Mrs.
I do truly find that I have overwrought my eyes, so that now they are become weak and apt to be tired, and all excess of light makes them sore, so that now to the candlelight I am forced to sit by, adding, the snow upon the ground all day, my eyes are very bad, and will be worse if not helped, so my Lord Bruncker do advise as a certain cure to use greene spectacles, which I will do.
Julie seemed to be grappling with some idea which escaped her, or, rather, was presently expelled by one more urgent. "Is Jacob ill?" she said, abruptly, looking her companion full in the face. "I only know what I've told you. Susan says 'strained and overwrought. Oh, it'll be all right when he gets you!" Julie made no reply.
'Ecco! she cried, her voice quivering like bronze, overwrought but triumphant. I must try also. I opened the door. Pouf! It shut with a bang. We all exclaimed with joy. Then the Signor di Paoli turned to me, with a gracious, bland, formal grin. He turned his back slightly on the woman, and stood holding his chin, his strange horse-mouth grinning almost pompously at me.
Above this din, which was really not so great as it seemed to the overwrought nerves of the three men who had sat looking at each other for the last forty minutes, there came the unmistakable rattle of machine-guns, which at first was distant and light in volume, but with incredible rapidity increased until it was a roar that seemed like a great wave rolling up from the southern part of the city.
Dan could see that the girl, always evidently one of dominant emotions, was overwrought, and something told him she had no business to express the thoughts which filled her mind, that she would be sorry later that she had spoken. He had interrupted her by a gesture. Now his voice came cool and even. "Miss Howland, don't. I've got to take care of this yacht."
Frederick, the younger of these Dioscouri, choked himself at last with the eternal chewing of moral and religious absurdities, which, in his uncomfortable passage through life, he had collected together from all quarters, and was eager to hawk about with the solemn air of a preacher to every body: he accordingly betook himself, as a last refuge, to Catholicism, and drew after him, as a companion to his own views, a man of very fair but falsely overwrought talent Adam Müller.
"You do not ask me for any account of my adventures," she said quietly, after watching his perplexed expression in silence for some time. Her tone almost startled him, its unassumed cheerfulness was so unlooked for. "No," he answered. "I thought you were too overwrought to talk of them at present." "Overwrought! Not a bit of it!
There would be plenty of time to discuss the matter after Helen left Jim. Again and again I recalled the struggle of the afternoon and again and again, Helen's face, distorted with anger, reappeared. Finally I decided to drive the car over to Mary Pendleton's and ask her to come spend the night with Helen. In her overwrought, hysterical condition, Helen was capable of doing almost anything.
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