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"Monseigneur is ill, madame, or else your majesty cannot doubt that he would have come himself to do the honors of his city." Catherine was sublime in hypocrisy. "Ill my poor child, ill!" cried she; "ah! let us hasten to him; is he well taken care of?" "Yes, madame, we do our best." "Does he suffer?" "Horribly, he is subject to these sudden indispositions." "It was sudden, then?"

On the day appointed for the fancy ball, the young Lord Lidhurst, who was to be Tancred, was taken ill of a feverish complaint: he was of a very weakly constitution, and his friends were much alarmed by his frequent indispositions.

Their mother's social circle, far from opening resources to their hearts or stimulating their minds, only darkened their ideas and depressed them; it was made up of rigid old women, withered and graceless, whose conversation turned on the differences which distinguished various preachers and confessors, on their own petty indispositions, on religious events insignificant even to the "Quotidienne" or "l'Ami de la Religion."

I think woman always brings with her the lasting miasma of her indispositions and she turns the psalms sour.

Her petition was at first met with a cold negative; but when she ventured to plead the advice she had received recently from several physicians, to remove to the sea coast, and reminded him of her frequent indispositions, and present feebleness of constitution, he looked at her for a time with astonishment at the circumstance of her thus exhibiting so unusual an opposition to his will, and afterwards with sincere and evident distress at the confirmation borne by her faded countenance to the truth of her representation.

Will not the prudent manager provide a substitute respectably to fill the part, in the sad event of one of those sudden indispositions to which Belville is but too liable! It may be somewhat 'fat and scant of breath, ay, and scant of hair and of teeth too.

Possessionaten Bilberg was subject to transient indispositions on Sunday morning. The symptoms that had prevented his being at the church service the day before seemed to have disappeared entirely on Monday. He came home from his drive with his daughter in unusually good spirits; and as for little Elsa, she was quite delighted.

It is well established and attested by the experience of eminent physicians, that certain indispositions, especially those of hypochondriasis and complete melancholy and incurable by any other means, have been happily removed in persons of both sexes, by exchanging a single state for wedlock.

"Aunt Bell, I think I may say that I pleased myself this morning and you know that's not easy for me." "It's too bad Nance wasn't there!" "Nancy is not pleasing me," began her husband, in gentle tones. "I didn't feel equal to it, Allan," his wife called from the library. "Oh, you're there! My dear, you give up too easily to little indispositions that another woman would make nothing of.

Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause. An old gentleman fell senseless in fatal apoplexy, on hearing of Napoleon's return from Elba.