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Updated: May 23, 2025
The poor young fellow, born of a weakly mother, was neurotic in the extreme, and had in him a feminine strain, which made him unequal to facing trouble or anxiety. Even as he sat there, shaking and white-faced, the nerve-storm came on, and racked and knotted and tortured every fibre of his being, until a burst of tears came to his relief, and almost in a swoon he lay back limply in his chair.
Mrs. Sidmouth, in the seclusion of the saloon, was summoning all her strength for a real nerve-storm. Damaris looked hard for a moment, then became deadly-white, and backed her way out through the crowd.
His face was grey and drawn he had aged so markedly since Mrs Pendle's garden-party that Mr Cargrim was quite shocked and he started nervously when his chaplain glided into the room. A nerve-storm, consequent on his interview with Mother Jael, had exhausted the bishop's vitality, and he seemed hardly able to lift his head.
"To America, eh? A nice little trip for you all. America, you know, would be entirely magic, if it weren't for the Americans...." "I have quite a circle of friends in New York," said Miss Ford, who seemed to be recovering from her nerve-storm. "Beware," said Richard, "lest you all forget the magic of to-night, and change from adventurers to tourists."
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