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You see, dear Terence, your grandfather married my great-aunt's sister, and your father again married my grandmother's niece, who, dying without a will, was, according to the French law " "But I do not comprehend," I said. "Of course not," said Blanche, with her old sweet smile; "you've had brain-fever; so go to sleep."
The first person singular will do instead. The ghost belongs to the same lot, as the faces that make mouths at me when I have brain-fever, the reptiles that crawl about when I have an attack of the D.T., or to take a more familiar example the spots I see floating before my eyes when my liver is out of order. You will allow there is nothing supernatural in all that?" "Certainly.
"It seems," said the Earl of Derby, "that old England who takes a frolicsome brain-fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors, and the purification of the torpid lethargy brought on by peace and prosperity, is now gone stark staring mad on the subject of a real or supposed Popish plot.
The truth will lie buried in our own hearts, and die with us." Six weeks from the night his golden-haired wife had died Basil Hurlhurst awoke to consciousness from the ravages of brain-fever awoke to a life not worth the living. Quickly Mrs. Corliss, the housekeeper, was sent for, who soon entered the room, leaning upon Hagar's arm. "My wife is " He could not say more.
The song of the brain-fever demon starts on a low but steadily rising key, and is a spiral twist which augments in intensity and severity with each added spiral, growing sharper and sharper, and more and more painful, more and more agonizing, more and more maddening, intolerable, unendurable, as it bores deeper and deeper and deeper into the listener's brain, until at last the brain fever comes as a relief and the man dies.
They walked across the park to reach the house by the garden, and for some distance they walked in silence. At length Helen said: "You must not encourage my brother to talk much, if you please; and you must not mind what he says; he has had brain-fever, and sometimes talks strangely. But on the other hand, if he fancy you don't believe him, it will drive him wild so you must take care please."
I was carried away by sleep to far cities and among other men, to great perils of the sea, to strange sights; but over them all loomed the phantom of a golden ship, and from her decks great fires came. When I awoke, a doctor from Southsea was writing down the names of drugs upon paper; and Mary was busy with ice. They told me I had slept for thirty hours, and that they had feared brain-fever.
And it wasn't till near breakfast time that the little doctor came to the hotel that was now their home. "Brain-fever patient," he said briefly. "Wife, I must get a cold plunge, or I'll be having it next." And when breakfast was really set before their party, he appeared with the others fresh from his bath, and as cheery as if nothing had happened to break his good night's rest. "O dear me!
"Meaning without sense," murmured Harry. "It wouldn't take much chloroform." "Huh! Don't you talk!" said Steve. "You'll never have brain-fever!" "Ha!" scoffed Harry. "Sarcasm, the refuge of small intellects!" "Come on," said Tom. "It's nearly three-thirty. Bother Sawyer, anyway. He's not troubling me any."
One morning, perhaps, a scribbler is absent from his post "Brain-fever, complete rest; a wreck." For years his writings have been read by thousands daily. A new man takes the vacant chair he has been waiting more or less impatiently for this and the thousands are none the wiser. One night the head compositor presses his black hand to his sunken chest, and staggers home.
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