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"It will happen yet!" cried Mrs. Rolleston. "Shake off this fearful dream, my dearest child. I know that Bertie cares only for you." "We have met to-night, we never shall again." "She will have a brain-fever," thought Mrs. Rolleston, distractedly, "if tears do not come to her relief."
The tigress-mother swelled in her heart, and she looked like a Maenad indeed. "Is this then your religion?" she cried with quivering nostril. "Would he you dare to call your master have stolen into the house of a neighbour to play upon the weakness of a poor lad suffering from brain-fever? A fine trophy of your persuasive power and priestly craft you would make of him!
He spoke to her with an air of great deference. "I beg your pardon, ma'am; but I thought that I'd better come and tell you about Mr. Lepel." "Have you a message a note?" cried Cynthia eagerly. "No, ma'am. Mr. Lepel's not able to write, nor to send messages. Mr. Lepel's ill in bed, ma'am, and the doctor's afraid that it is brain-fever." Cynthia gasped a little.
Millar was very ill; the shock had been too much for her. The men went back in the boat to bring a doctor to the island to see her, and the doctor sent them back again to bring a nurse. He said he was afraid she would have an attack of brain-fever, and he thought her very ill indeed. My grandfather and I sat in the Millars' house all night, for the nurse did not arrive until early in the morning.
He certainly did not live as one should live after a brain-fever. He knocked about from fair to fair with a couple of boon-companions, and, it is said, was somewhat mixed up with troupes of mountebanks, and especially with the women of the company. Perhaps it would be wisest if I ran upstairs, and got my friend's letter. Permit me. I'll be back in a moment." "Don't you think, Mr.
But a time came now in which all thought of the future was swept away by a very present danger. Before the next night, Clarissa was raving in brain-fever; and for more than a month life was a blank to her or not a blank, an age of confused agony rather, to be looked back upon with horror by-and-by. They dared not move her from the cheerless rooms in Soho.
What is known amongst English residents as the "brain-fever" bird, is common in some districts. He makes a series of sounds, thought by some to resemble this word, over and over again with increasing rapidity and shrillness, until he breaks down and begins afresh.
If you should see my aunt, not a word of all this, please. All she knows is that he has had brain-fever, and is recovering only very slowly. I have never given her even a hint of anything worse. Indeed, honestly, Mr. Wingfold, I am not at all certain he did do what he will tell you. But there is his misery all the same. Do have pity on us, and don't be hard upon the poor boy.
"Edith! Edith! shall it be the first week of September?" She smiled and looked at him as she had done early this eventful morning, when she had said "Yes!" "As brain-fever threatens if I refuse, I suppose you must have your way. But talk of the willfulness of women after this!" "Then it shall be the first of September St Partridge Day?" "It shall be St. Partridge Day."
They thought she was delirious; and she was by midnight. Brain-fever had set in. For forty-three days Charles did not leave her. He gave up all his patients; he no longer went to bed; he was constantly feeling her pulse, putting on sinapisms and cold-water compresses. He sent Justin as far as Neufchâtel for ice; the ice melted on the way; he sent him back again.
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