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Updated: June 17, 2025
One can hardly help wishing so little of Plutarch's spirit survives in their dull pages that a similar fate had overtaken these excellent men to that which carried off the gentle Abbé Ricard with the grippe, when he had published but half of his translation of the Philosopher of Cheronaea.
"Where's Gerald?" he asked as an office-boy relieved him of his heavy box coat and brought his mail to him. "I advised Gerald to go home," observed Selwyn carelessly; "he is not perfectly well." Neergard's tiny mouse-like eyes, set close together, stole brightly in Selwyn's direction; but they usually looked just a little past a man, seldom at him. "Grippe?" he asked.
To be winning and agreeable is sometimes reckoned a gift, but it is a disposition that can be cultivated; and, in a world so given to grippe and misapprehension as this is, personal attractiveness becomes a duty, if it is not an art, that might be taught in the public schools.
"I remember laughing very heartily at Prague, six years ago, on learning that some thin-skinned ladies, on reading my flight from The Leads, which was published at that date, took great offense at the above account, which they thought I should have done well to leave out." In May he was troubled with an attack of the grippe. In October, he was in Dresden, apparently with his brother.
With him, she loved him in truth, at times a vexed and worried love; but love it was, a love that was stronger than she. "This La Grippe is nothing," he was saying. "It hurts a bit, and gives one a nasty headache, but it doesn't compare with break-bone fever." "Have you had that, too?" she queried absently, intent on the heaven-sent justification she was finding in his arms.
It can't be that we're the fellows.... Why, there's Antonia, coming in through the rain!" "I wonder," said I, "if la grippe isn't taking a bad turn with her father." She came in, shedding the rain from her mackintosh like a water-fowl, radiant with health and the air of outdoors. "Gentlemen," said she gaily, "who but myself would come out in anything but a diving-suit to-day!"
She passed out of the door just as a feeble man was entering. He was an old pilgrim and evidently suffering much. The doctor seized him by the hand with a strange vigor not even understood by Mr. World. "So you are under the power of 'La Grippe," saluted the doctor. "Under the power of something, I am sure, for everything is wrong with me, and everything seems wrong to me," was the slow answer.
Madam Chartley's is one of the best regulated schools I have ever inquired into. Ordinarily a girl ought to be able to take the course with perfect ease. But you see that little spell of la grippe left you weak and unfit for any extra strain, and, instead of easing up a bit, you went on piling on all that extra load of lessons and Christmas preparations and vacation dissipations.
It may not be inappropriate to mention that a similar epidemic prevailed all over New England and a part of New York, after the visit of President Tyler to Boston, in 1843, which was called the Tyler grippe. Washington wrote in his diary, under date of Saturday, October twenty-fourth: "Suffice it to say, that at the entrance of the town I was welcomed by the selectmen in a body.
"You know papa has been kept in by la grippe for a day or so," she went on, "and we haven't been allowing people to see him very much; but Mr. Cornish has been in two or three times, and every time when he went away papa was nervous and feverish. To-day, after he left, papa asked " here she looked at Mr.
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