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Updated: May 20, 2025
She had thought herself unloved, and, nerve-shattered by her terrible experience with the snake, had made no fight for life when the unwanted boy was born. He had told her that he loved her, told her once, and had been accepted. Once! Only once told her that he loved her, that she was beautiful, that he was hers to command to the uttermost. Only once!
He looked with something like wonder at the nerve-shattered man who had risen to his feet with a certain air of briskness. "Horridge," he said, "I wish I had your pluck." "I don't know any one in the service from whom you need borrow any, sir," was the quiet reply.
"Why don't you say something? Abuse me, claim me " "I haven't the courage even if I have the right," she said, presently. "Besides, the last year I have been loving an ideal the Steve O'Valley who existed one time and might still exist if other things were equal. But in reality you are a prematurely nerve-shattered, blundering pirate; not my Steve." She spoke his name softly.
As for me, as long as my tenants pay their rents and my leases are kept up ! You see my account-books: I live in them, gentlemen; and I confess that I know absolutely nothing whatever about that story of which you wrote to me in your letter, M. Massiban " Isidore Beautrelet, nerve-shattered at all this talk, interrupted him bluntly: "I beg your pardon, monsieur, but the book "
I finished the egg-nogg in four gulps, returned the empty tumbler with an air of decision, and sank upon the grass. "Tell 'em I rave. Tell 'em that I'm unconscious, and that for weeks I have recognized no one, not even my dear sister. Say that in my present nerve-shattered condition I "
The afternoon had turned out to be fine and she had taken some trouble about her dress before setting out to meet a strange nephew whom she had not seen since he was five years old. She might have taken more trouble still if the nephew had been anything more exciting than a nerve-shattered poet. The train steamed in at last. Only one passenger got out of a first-class carriage. Mrs.
Pamela arriving with Lewis Elliot and Mawson and a motor full of pasteboard boxes found Jean just home from a picnic at Broadway, flushed with the sun and glowing with health and happiness. "Well," said Pamela as she kissed her, "this is a new type of bride. Not the nerve-shattered, milliner-ridden creature with writer's cramp in her hand from thanking people for useless presents!
I have seen boys almost fresh from a Public School in whose faces there were two personalities expressed: the one full of the lighthearted, reckless, irresponsible vitality of boyhood, and the other scarred with the anxious lines of one to whom a couple of hundred exhausted and nerve-shattered men have looked, and not looked in vain, for leadership and strength in their grim extremity.
Each time an ambulance car, loaded with broken and nerve-shattered men, stopped by the hospital entrance, a young donkey brayed joyously from a field facing the doorway, as if to shout "Never say die!" Most of the casualties echoed the sentiment, for they seemed full of beans and congratulated themselves and each other on their luck in getting Blighty ones.
There I among those other nerve-shattered ones had scribbled my name and scrawled a sketch or two. "Here sweated Rudolph Brederode," read out Miss Rivers, with a sweet look, as if she pitied me now for what I suffered then. But Miss Van Buren showed sublime indifference. She wished, she said, to pick out names that were really interesting.
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