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Updated: May 11, 2025
I began to tighten the girths, venting my feelings on Firefly until the animal swung around and made a vicious pass at my arm. "Richard!" "Yes." "You will not worry over that senseless speech of Tom's?" "I see it in a properer light now, Patty," I replied. "I usually do in the morning." She sighed. "You are so high-strung," she said, "I was afraid you would " "I would ?"
The stress of the tremendous gait of the big parish, and the way he had thrown his strength by handfuls into the work, had told. If a healthy and happy man uses brain and heart and body carefully it is perhaps true that he cannot overwork. But if a high-strung man gives himself out all day long, every day, recklessly, and is at the same time under a mental strain, he is likely to be ill.
That describes the man who rode Rollo first and no wonder the spirited, high-strung colt was suspicious of saddles, men, and things. I watched the man as he rode away.
This is because the cross-roads church is the only communal institution, and the voice of the cross-roads pastor is for teetotalism. The routine of the farm-hand, while by no means ideal in other respects, keeps him from craving drink as intensely as other toilers do. A day's work in the open air fills his veins at nightfall with an opiate of weariness instead of a high-strung nervousness.
A few spare locks of black hair mixed with white, like the wing of a magpie, escaped from the colonel's cap, while handsome brown curls adorned the brow of the statesman. One was tall, gallant, high-strung, and the lines of his pallid face showed terrible passions or frightful griefs. The other had a face that was brilliant with health, and jovially worth of an epicurean.
The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. To the normal high-strung energy of New York streets was added a touch of war-fever.
"He cannot write," said the curé; "and if he could, no one at home could read his letters." The ex-governor promised to look after him. "And how," he asked, "does Sosthène's little orphan get on?" The curé smiled. "He is well physically. A queer, high-strung child; so old, yet so young. In some things he will be an infant as long as he lives; in others, he has been old from the cradle.
An inhumanly tyrannical mother-in-law, the most vicious of her vicious kind, whose chief delight was to torture the high-strung nature she was too small to comprehend; a husband, encouraged in his not-to-be-borne gallantries by his own mother, this same monstrous mother-in-law of the Empress; her children's love aborted by this same fiend in woman form is it any marvel that the proud Empress broke away from her splendid torture and found a sad comfort in travel and study?
Then comes the timid hail: "I beg pardon, Sir." You'd naturally look for somebody special after that, wouldn't you? But what I finds close to my elbow is a wispy little girl with a pinched, high-strung look on her thin face, an amazin' collection of freckles, and a pleadin' look in her big, blue-gray eyes.
You wouldn't find your position intolerable if I could make you fond of me." Agatha broke into a little, high-strung laugh that was near to weeping. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "aren't you taking too much for granted? Am I really to believe you are making this fantastic offer seriously? Do you suppose I would marry you for your possessions?" "My proposition does sound cold-blooded.
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