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Updated: May 29, 2025
He turned a knob in the head panel of his bed, tried to yield to the soothing music that seemed to come from nowhere. He turned another knob, watched the marching, playing, whirling of somnolent colors on the domed ceiling of his room. At last he gave it up. Some sixth sense had him all jumpy. It was not usual for Sime Hemingway to be jumpy.
Soldiers who were returning from leave in the regular way were having a jumpy passage, as one knew by the whitecaps that looked like tiny white flowers on a pewter cloth; only if you looked steadily at one it disappeared and others appeared in its place.
It was pretty jumpy work, I can tell you, sitting tight and gambling with it for ten blasted days. Any other man would have gone clean off his chump with worrying over it. There've been times when I've felt like it myself. It was infernal when you think what I stood to lose." I said that was all rot. It was his beastly egoism. He didn't stand to lose more than I did.
I just said what he said I was to and then I beat it. I thought she might be going to start weepin'." "I have no doubt the loneliness is getting on her nerves," said the doctor. "And the rain that's enough to make anyone jumpy," he continued irritably. "Doesn't it ever stop in this confounded place?" "It goes on pretty steady in the rainy season. We have three hundred inches in the year.
He now relinquished it with an effort. "Thanks," he said. "I like it cold." He sat beside her, and they talked casually, like old, fast friends, of mutual acquaintance. But for him the air was charged; she was on his conscience. Reminiscences paled and talk died down; he found himself staring at the wall. He resumed the great affair. "Nevile's rather jumpy, don't you think?"
"Oh, John, do you think it was as horrible as all that?" His face moved, flashed into sudden passion. "I think he was as horrible as that. He makes it horrible inconceivably horrible." "But he wasn't." "You've told me. He was cruel to you. And he lied and funked." "It wasn't like him it wasn't like him to lie and funk. It was my fault. I made the poor thing jumpy.
We took the train for Calais and crossed the Channel to Dover. This time the eccentric strip of water was as calm as a pond at sunset. No jumpy, white-capped billows, no flying spray, no seasick passengers. Tarpaulins were a drag on the market. "I wouldn't believe," declared Hephzy, "that this lookin'-glass was the same as that churned-up tub of suds we slopped through before.
But, it must be owned, this wide indistinct landscape, over which pale vapours trailed and brooded, the immense loneliness of the felt rather than seen, expanse of water, marsh and mud-flat of the Haven the tide being low along with the goblin whispering chuckle of the river speeding seaward away there on his left, made him oddly jumpy and nervous.
And I don't know why, but for the first time, I've been feeling rather jumpy and run down. So I went to a doctor, and he told me I'd better go off duty for a fortnight. But just then, luckily, the whole battalion was ordered, as I told you a week ago, into what's called "divisional rest," so here we are for three weeks!
At present in this country, for instance, and, indeed, in the whole world, there seem to be more catfish than cod, and the resulting liveliness is perhaps a little excessive, a little "jumpy."
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