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The irritation caused by the gases in the mines, by the dirty work in the blackness, by the squalor in which the company houses are built, turns men to drink for reaction and lamplight and comradeship. The similar fevers and exasperations of factory life lead the workers to unstring their tense nerves with liquor.
"Of course, Susan, but don't you reckon a man wants to unstring himself once in a while? They can't understand us, Hawes. Women know all about the heart, but they are sometimes off on the soul." "You think more of those old chickens than you do of me, anyhow," his wife whimpered, still resentful that he was not leaning upon her for support. "Did you hear that, Hawes?
The remainder of the men were looking at the girl who now advanced slowly, her bow ready, when Bradley turned toward her and held out his hand. "Co-Tan," he said, "unstring your bow these are my friends, and yours." And to the Englishmen: "This is Co-Tan. You who saw her save me from Schwartz know a part of what I owe her."
Life's hurry and heat are over, the judgment is calm, the passions subdued, the stress of effort relaxed. Our temper is less aggressive, events seem less imminent. The morning is positive; in the evening we muse and dream and take our ease, we see our friends, we unstring the bow, we indulge our social instincts. Optimism is positive, pessimism is negative.
It may have been the words, it may have been the tone, it may have been that she touched some hidden thought, for suddenly, without premonition, his breast heaved, and he sobbed heavily as only a man can sob. She started back in pain. That such emotion could so unstring Louis Arnold was a marvel. It did not last long; and as he rose from his chair he spoke in his accustomed, quiet tone.
"You are so sympathetic that such things unstring you." She bent toward him. There was a haunted, groping expression in her eyes. "I'll never forget this as long as I live," she half sobbed. "It will cling to me till I die. The very pores of my soul seemed to open to that wretched woman's spirit. If she had been my sister I couldn't have felt " A welling sob checked her words.
"Unstring your bow, Dick, and let us charge," said Hugh. "We have no other chance save flight. They'll pelt us under." Dick did not seem to hear. At least he shot on as one who was not minded to die unavenged. An arrow whistled through Hugh's cap, lifting it from his head, and another glanced from the mail on his shoulder.
You haven't had a chance. Hank, and when you do get one, I'll bet you can lay out the best of them. What do you say?" "Henry," said the dark-visaged DeGolyer and the light of affection beamed in his eyes "Henry, you are a positive charm; and if I should meet a girl adorned with a disposition like yours, I would unstring my heart, hand it to her and say, 'Here, miss, this belongs to you."
You surely don't believe all the rot those superstitious Mexicans talk, do you?" "No, not exactly but oh, Roy," even plucky Peggy's voice broke and quavered, "it's so lonely, and whatever are we to do?" The last words came wildly. Peggy was not, as we know, a nervous girl, but the situation was enough to unstring the nerves of the most stolid of beings. Suddenly Roy gave a sharp exclamation.
What I have recently gone through with is quite enough to unstring the nerves of a stronger woman than I am, and what must be my condition? Worn out and weary of any life that I could conceive of here don't you see how I am floundering about? But give me time and in all honesty you shall know the true state of my mind.
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