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"Why, doctor, it will be utter ruin to my friend's career; he will lose years that no one can ever make up. And besides, he is unfit for such a strain, he will never stand it." My heart felt hot as I thought of Derrick, with his highly-strung, sensitive nature, his refinement, his gentleness, in constant companionship with such a man as Major Vaughan.
Vernon, lounging at the opposite end of the bench, talked about a day Hyslop and he had spent upon the rocks, and rather struck a foreign note. He had not Hyslop's graceful languidness; he looked alert and highly-strung. His thin face was too grave for Carrock and his glance too quick. Lister, listening to his remarks, was surprised to note that Hyslop was a bold mountaineer.
S. was in the South of France all last winter. Odd couple I call the two of 'em, Mr. Brent; between you and myself." "Why, exactly?" inquired Brent. "I've seen nothing particularly odd about Mrs. Saumarez, except that she's evidently a highly-strung, perhaps a bit excitable sort of woman, all nerves, I should say, and possibly a bit emotional. Clever woman, I think, and pretty."
Life is rich in contrasts, and a susceptible and highly-strung human soul would break down like a bridge under the measured tread of soldiers, if it were allowed to let the burden of the heaviest thoughts and strongest feelings work upon it in undisturbed monotony; but just as in music every key-note has its harmonies, so when we cause one chord of our heart to vibrate for long, all sorts of strange notes respond and clang, often those which we least expect.
So Hailima returned with him and brought him up as one of her children until he was five, when the first signs of his nervous, highly-strung nature showed themselves in a kind of epileptic fit.
She had not yet recovered from the dreadful events of the revolution, and had a theatrical habit of relieving her highly-strung feelings by rushing to the harpsichord, wildly playing the Marseillaise, and then bursting into tears.
If I were asked to give a 'professional' opinion of you I should say you were very neurotic and highly-strung, and given over to self- delusions." "Thanks!" and I made him a demure little curtsy. "I look it, don't I?" "No you don't look it; but looks are deceptive." "There I agree with you," I said "But one has to go by them sometimes.
The excitement to which he had been wound up by the anticipation of acute physical enjoyment, enhanced by a chaste life and a highly-strung soul, had no doubt led to these attacks, of which the results are as little known as the cause. The letters that have by chance escaped destruction show very plainly a transition from pure idealism to the most intense sensualism.
In poor Maggie's highly-strung, hungry nature, just come away from a third-rate schoolroom, with all its jarring sounds and petty round of tasks, these apparently trivial causes had the effect of rousing and exalting her imagination in a way that was mysterious to herself. It was not that she thought distinctly of Mr.
I watched this peculiar and intensely highly-strung crowd with the greatest interest, and except for one figure a sort of cross between a Methodist parson and a Plymouth Brother was struck by the complete absence of personality amongst the people present.
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