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When the news reached Les Peuples, Jeanne had a hysterical fit which lasted several hours. The baron went to Havre, made every inquiry, saw lawyers and attorneys, and found that the Delamare Company had failed for two hundred and fifty thousand francs. He again mortgaged his property, and borrowed a large sum on Les Peuples and the two adjoining farms.
"Her letter is inquisitorial and hysterical. My answer will give a bump, I imagine." "You've clouded visions and waked her from sweet dreaming. She's been seeing herself in the Thorne house as the mother of its mistress. I don't mean to laugh, indeed I don't, but " I did laugh. Mrs. Swink and Selwyn dwelling under the same roof was a picture beyond the resistance of laughter.
"My son my son!" the old woman was wailing, on her knees beside a long, inert figure lying on its back on the hard-packed earth. Back of her the peona hovered, hysterical, useless. Luis, half dressed and a good deal dazed yet from sleep and the suddenness of his waking, knelt beside his mother, patting her shoulder in futile affection, staring down bewilderedly at Estan. So Starr found them.
Not wishing to be involved in the matter, she said a few words to Wenceslas, who in his joy hugged her then and there. She had no doubt pushed out a plank to enable the artist to cross this awkward place in his conjugal affairs. At the sight of her mother, who had flown to her aid, Hortense burst into floods of tears. This happily changed the character of the hysterical attack.
"Yesterday," said Grant with an odd little smile, "she was not hysterical. It seems that shooting was the last little weight that tilted the scale against me. I don't think she ever cared two whoops for me, to tell you the truth. She's been ashamed of my Indian blood all along; she said so.
"You'll never forgive me, Master Tom," was her startling salutation. "It's me as nursed you through it; but you'll never forgive me never! And I don't deserve as you should." Dorothea was nervous, hysterical, but she steadied herself bravely, though her fingers worked and trembled under her faded shawl. Tom stared, and his visitor went on "You'd 'a died for sure if I hadn't.
Well, I thought, this is certainly going too far. I opened my mouth to voice the angry words but a look at her stopped me. I couldnt help but feel her imperviousness was fragile, that harsh speech might shatter a calm too taut to be anything but hysterical. I drove on without speaking until the hummocks gave way again to smooth desert. "We'll soon be in Yuma," I announced.
The tanned face of the witness had become pallid, but out of it his eyes shot jets of fire, hysterical to madness, yet convincing in an earnestness that transcended the fear of death and carried indubitable conviction.
In those benighted times such attacks were popularly ascribed to possession by evil spirits. The hysterical nuns, as the chronicles tell us, explained their condition to Mignon by informing him that, shortly before the onset of their trouble, they had been haunted by the ghost of their former confessor, Father Moussaut. Here Mignon found his opportunity.
And then Avery's pent fury blazed suddenly forth upon him. "It is your doing!" she said. "You and you alone are responsible for this!" He looked at her malignantly. "Pshaw, my dear Lady Evesham! You are hysterical!" he said. Avery was bending over the bed. "Go!" she said, without looking up. "Go quickly, and fetch a doctor!" And, very curiously, Mr. Lorimer obeyed her. Jeanie rallied.
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