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"What the foul fiend sent this wench hither? As if it were not sufficient plague to be harboured in a hovel that would hardly serve for a dog's kennel in England, baited by a rude peasant-boy, and dependent on the faith of a mercenary ruffian, but I cannot even have time to muse over my own mishap, but must come aloft, frisk, fidget, and make speeches, to please this pale hectic phantom, because she has gentle blood in her veins?
Hazlitt, himself a Radical, wrote of Shelley: "He has a fire in his eye, a fever in his blood, a maggot in his brain, a hectic flutter in his speech, which mark out the philosophic fanatic. He is sanguine-complexioned and shrill-voiced."
Joseph perceived it, and with hectic cheeks of indignation instantly ceased singing. Coggan boxed Bob's ears immediately. "Go on, Joseph go on, and never mind the young scamp," said Coggan. "'Tis a very catching ballet. Now then again the next bar; I'll help ye to flourish up the shrill notes where yer wind is rather wheezy:
But, above all, I wanted a faithful and sympathizing ear into which to pour all my doubts, discontents, and aspirations. My sister Susan, who was one year younger than myself, was growing into a slender, pretty, hectic girl of sixteen. But she was altogether a devout Puritan.
To be frank with you, as you have been with me, you were sickly, hectic, dreamy; and when word came that you must go to the desert if your life were to be saved well, Jack, I had to put affection aside and consider this blow for what it was, and think not of kind words but of what was best for you and your future.
With it in his hand he sprang to the side of the girl, who stood unflinching, a pride that was superb in her still white face and steadfast eyes. "Who touches her dies," he said between his teeth. Havisham came to his aid. "Men, are you mad? You cannot murder a defenseless woman! Moreover such a deed would prove our utter ruin." "If her body were found, yes!" cried the hectic youth.
As she concluded a hectic spot rose to either cheek, lingered there a moment, and then left it colorless as before. "Be it so, Miss Montgomerie, my word is pledged, and you shall go Grantham, I had intended sending one of my personal staff with the summons, but, on reflection, you shall be the bearer.
Those hectic spots were more pronounced, the eyes shone more brightly out of darker hollows, and a cold sweat glimmered upon his brow. He still retained, however, the jaunty gallantry of his speech. To the last gasp he would always be the master. "You will tell him exactly how you have left me," said he.
"A beautiful morning for a ride down the Valley," remarked Eleanor absently. "What? I beg your pardon? Did you speak to me?" It wasn't the words. It was the hard tone of surprise. "We're in luck to have such a morning to ride down," amplified Eleanor. "Yes," said the lady with the hectic flush; and Eleanor felt the gold teeth simpering beneath the undertaker's plumes. What was it?
She read on till dinner-time, only pausing to scribble rapid notes of the dates and names and facts which would not stand steadily in her whirling brain; and then she went down to the parlour, no longer pale, but with two hectic spots on her cheeks, and her eyes unnaturally bright. "Ah," ejaculated Miss Skipwith, delightedly. "You look better already.
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