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She dreamed continually of the cool, high valley, the scented aisles of the deep forest, the mountain rearing its rough summit to the pale blue of summer skies. June passed; July passed; it was hot at the "Emmy Younger." August came in on a furnace breath; Cherry felt headachy, languid, and half sick all the time.
It was almost seven o'clock when she came back, glowing, beginning to feel warm and headachy, beginning to realize that the July day would be hot, beginning to be conscious of the eight-mile tramp. In the garden at Crownlands she met Royal, leaving the house. He studied her approvingly. "Harriet, do you know you are extraordinarily easy to look upon? What gets you up so early?"
Then there were speeches, congratulations, and refreshments, and after that Mr. Jones said, 'These are very delightful functions, no doubt; but they are a little long, and somehow they always make me very hot and tired and headachy. What do you ladies say to taking a run out into the country for a couple of hours, and getting home just in time for dinner?
On the day after he had taken Sheila Morgan to her uncle's farm, he had been so restless and inattentive during his morning's work that Marsh had asked him if he were ill. "I'm rather headachy," he had answered, and had gladly accepted the offer to quit work for the day. "Would you like to go out for a walk?" Marsh had asked. "The fresh air!..." And Henry had replied, "No, thanks!
You can't imagine how lonely it's been." Her small nose puckered fastidiously as she added, "The company is odious and I hate the play and the hotels provide unfinished road-beds to sleep on and I've been headachy and altogether miserable." Then she broke off and laughed again, "Which will be about enough Jeremiad for the present. Have you missed me?"
You don't bore Eva with your horrid, headachy business-problems, do you?" Claire cooed, with low cunning. "Indeed no. Don't think a chap ought to inflict his business on his wife. The home should be a place of peace." "Yes," said Claire. But she wasn't thinking "Yes." She was thinking, "Milt, what worries me now isn't how I can risk letting the 'nice people' meet you.
Why should he look so grateful for her casual charity, he, seventy years old, Katrina and Mary averaging less than twenty! She reached Aunt Kate's flat in a thorough temper, angry, headachy, almost feverish after the rich scones and the rich tea, and the even less wholesome talk.
Jeff Saxton as well, had vaguely concluded that because drummers were always to be seen in soggy hotels and badly connecting trains and the headachy waiting-rooms of stations, they must like these places.
Aunt Lavvy sat on the parrot chair, with her feet on the fender. Her fingers had left off embroidering brown birds on drab linen. In the dying light of the room things showed fuzzy, headachy outlines. It made you feel sick to look at them. Mamma had left her alone with Aunt Lavvy. "I suppose you think that nobody was ever so unhappy as you are," Aunt Lavvy said. "I hope nobody is.
I asked him what he disliked in particular, and he answered, Everything. That he always felt dizzy, headachy, and unable to read with comfort; the food was greasy, and there was a general sense of dirt and discomfort. As the time drew nigh for sailing, he talked a good deal about the rapidly growing evil of the labour trade.
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