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She had shared in them, too up till that meeting with Elvine van Blooren at the reception. After that ah, well, there had been very little after for Nan. And the man himself. Four days had sufficed to reduce Jeff's feelings to a condition of love-sickness such as is best associated with extreme youth.
But if it should turn out that he's right about the the dervish-dance ... it would be ... to put it mildly ... a horse on us, Al, wouldn't it?" I had no answer to this fanciful speech, and made none. Instead, I told him of Giddings's love-sickness. "The philosophy of Iago has broken down," said he, "and the boy is sort of short-circuited.
On another occasion he says: "Only with difficulty can I resist the temptation of filling a whole letter with agricultural lamentations over frosts, sick cattle, bad reap, bad roads, dead lambs, hungry sheep, want of straw, fodder, money, potatoes, and manure; outside Johann is persistently whistling a wretched schottische out of tune, and I have not the cruelty to interrupt it, for he seeks to still by music his violent love-sickness."
Knights and fair dames praised his handsome figure and well grown sinewy limbs; he heeded not but once Felice gave him a courteous word as he offered her the wine-cup; he blushed and stammered and spilled the wine, and was rebuked for awkwardness. The feast being over, Guy went away to his chamber, and there fell into a great love-sickness.
He did not care for what he called the 'full-uddered kine. He liked them parched and lithe with eyes like smouldering fires " "Ah, like Patsy!" said the Duke, not yet cured of his love-sickness. "Exactly," countered my Lord, "like Miss Patsy to a hair. Well, when we went into his tent the next morning Murat had excused him service he well, he was not pretty to see.
"Look here," he explained, "this is the first night of our holiday. I'm going to run the party and I'm going to make the rules. No more newspapers to-night or for a fortnight. You understand? No reading, nothing but frivolity. And no love-sickness, Miss Laura." "Love-sickness, indeed!" she repeated scornfully. "Having arranged those minor details," Quest concluded, "on with your hats, everybody.
It was what I had hoped from you. Go now, Marcel. I doubt me you are eager. When your love-sickness wanes a little we shall hope to see you at Court again." I sighed. "Helas, Sire, that would be never." "So you said once before, monsieur. It is a foolish spirit upon which to enter into matrimony; yet like many follies a fine one. Adieu, Marcel!" "Adieu, Sire!"
But to me an immense amount of experience was crowded into that brief period. The fine exhilaration of the start, the breeze gradually increasing to a gale; then horrible sea-sickness, home-sickness, love-sickness; after which, the weather which sailors love, games, gayety, and flirtation. There is no such social freedom to be enjoyed anywhere as on board an ocean steamer.
Between these madness came; the unnatural brother, blind with lust of gold, and reckless of his sister's love, lays Sychaeus low before the altars with stealthy unsuspected weapon; and for long he hid the deed, and by many a crafty pretence cheated her love-sickness with hollow hope.
Henceforth his life is saddened; as one kissed by a goddess in a dream, he goes thereafter, as one might say, in a sort of love-sickness. Seeking he scarce knows what, his existence becomes a dissatisfied yearning; the world is spoiled for him, its joys are tasteless: so he wanders, vision-haunted, down dreary days to some miserable end.
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