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"Grey hairs I reverence: and to you in particular, least of all men, do I hear malice: though oft, God knows, in my young days, old Sir, you have cost me an ague-fit." He folded his cloak; looked once again upon the old man; and with an aspect, in which some defiance was blended with a deep sorrow that could not be mistaken, he turned away slowly with the words "Farewell!
Any stranger, with his rifle, could easily pay his way in the procurement of food. They all turned back and entered the cabin together. Mrs. Owen was an excellent, motherly woman, about fifty years of age. Her sympathies were immediately excited for the poor little boy, whose garments were drenched, and who was shivering as if in an ague-fit.
"Then Sir Richard lieth snug in his manor of Shene doth he not? Aye or no?" "Aye aye, at Shene at Shene!" Hereupon I loosed him and, falling back on the hay, found myself all breathless and shaking as with an ague-fit. And this to no other end but that I myself might destroy him. "His life, O God give this man's life into mine hand!"
It looks like a dressmaker's box, but why such emotion over a gown? "Wednesday. "This morning she opened the box but did not display its contents. I caught one glimpse of a mass of tissue paper, and then she put the cover on again, and for a good half hour sat crouching down beside it, shuddering like one in an ague-fit.
Gerty! they were nearing Gerty's corner. If only she could reach there before this labouring anguish burst from her breast to her lips if only she could feel the hold of Gerty's arms while she shook in the ague-fit of fear that was coming upon her! She pushed up the door in the roof and called the address to the driver. It was not so late Gerty might still be waking.
Unquiet and unresting now shifting her place now letting down the glass for the cold air to blow full upon her withered face then drawing it up, and chafing her hands and feet by the warm-water apparatus concealed in her chauffe-pied, while shivering as if in an ague-fit sighing deeply lost in thought wildly looking out and around for distraction she soon made me ask myself whether my envy of her was as true as deep sympathy and pity would have been.
And besides, to-morrow perhaps he will be in a better frame of mind, and next day " Melissa became urgent. "If Philip is ill " she put in. "Not exactly ill," said he. "He has no fever, no ague-fit, no aches and pains. He is not in bed, and has no bitter draughts to swallow.
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