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But I could not easily allay his anxiety or my own; it was impossible to conceal from him that she was in a precarious state, and that unless the power of sleep returned to her there was danger of actual brain-fever; in her morbid condition one knew not what to fear. Perfect quiet, patience, and tenderness were the only means to be employed.
He wanted her to sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be."
I will be married. There is nothing to wait for I won't wait. Edith shall it be this is the last of May shall it be the first week of July?" "No, sir; it shall not, nor the first week of August. We don't do things in this desperate sort of hot haste." "But why should we delay? What is there to delay for? I shall have a brain-fever if I am compelled to wait longer than August.
When will it be? In what condition? Shall I suffer a thousand, thousand pains, which will make me die desperate? Shall I have brain-fever? Shall I die of an accident? How shall I be with God? What shall I have to show Him? Shall fear, shall necessity bring me back to Him? Shall I have no sentiment but that of dread? What can I hope? Am I worthy of heaven? Am I worthy of hell?
"Is it you, Helen?" he said, shuddering, as he closed his eyes and laid his head on her shoulder. His breath was like that of a furnace. His skin seemed on fire. She felt his pulse: it was galloping. He was in a fever brain-fever, probably, and what was she to do? A thought came to her. Yes, it was the only possible thing. She would take him home.
'The children are all well, but I left James very uncomfortable, though with nothing worse than a fit of jaundice. The inexperienced Isabel hardly knew whether this were not as formidable as even the cherished brain-fever, and becoming very pale, she said, 'I am ready at once Walter will let mamma know. 'There will be no train for two hours, said Louis.
As Albinia thought of the passive endurance of last year's estrangement, her heart sank within her! Illness brain-fever permanent ill-health and crushed spirits nay, death itself she augured and all all her own fault! The last and best of Edmund's children so cruelly and deeply wounded, and by her folly!
Indian birds; they cannot sing; their plumage. The "brain-fever" bird. Swallows. Peewits. Vultures. Crows. Kites. Tameness of the birds.
Then I plunged into the matter at once, telling him that Leopold had had violent brain-fever, brought on by a horrible drug, the use of which, if use I dare call it, he had learnt in India; and that, although he had recovered from the fever, it was very doubtful if ever he would recover from the consequences of it, for that he had become the prey of a fixed idea, the hard deposit from a heated imagination.
"Oh, don't say it'll be all right on the night." "I wasn't going to," said Jimmy. "I was going to say it'll be all right after the night. People will soon forget how badly the thing went." "You're a nice, comforting sort of man, aren't you?" said Charteris. "Why worry?" said Jimmy. "If you go on like this, it'll be Westminster Abbey for you in your prime. You'll be getting brain-fever."
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