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Jane Coop was miserable too; so was the bulldog, and, through a certain unconfessed and indefinable vigilance they both felt called upon to exercise in behalf of their beloved mistress, were distinctly nervy. "Drat the men!" had said the maid, giving pithy verbal expression to the ragged state of her nerves as she cut the stalks of the beautiful flowers which came daily without name or message.
Merston who seemed half-afraid of her own action. "You must get your husband to take you to Brennerstadt for the races," she said. "It would make a change for you. It's a shame for a girl of your age to be buried in the wilderness." "I really haven't begun to be dull yet," Sylvia said. "No, perhaps not. But you'll get nervy and unhappy.
Billy looked dubious and said nothing. If he hadn't proven that he was as nervy as any man in the outfit they might have taken more stock in his grumbling. "What's the latest from Abilene way?" Asked Buck of Frenchy. "Nothin' much 'cept th' barb-wire ruction," replied the recruit. "What's that?" Asked Red, glancing apprehensively back at Hopalong.
"Slipped the poison in the glass of water you handed him," answered Ferguson promptly. "A nervy sleight-of-hand, but you'll swing for it." Rochester's smile was exasperating as he turned to Dr. Stone. "Judging from Stone's remarks about aconitine which I overheard," he interpolated. "I gather the doctor is tolerably familiar with the action of the drug. Does aconitine kill instantly, doctor?"
It isn't every one who would be nervy enough and original enough to make a world where people starve to death right beside those who have too much." "That's rubbish!" "You're blasphemous! and you're overwrought about the few cases of need here. Think of those two million people that have just starved to death in India." "That wasn't my fault."
It was much to Miss Todd's credit that she was able to take her fresh duties quite calmly, and without any fuss or exhibition of nerves. She was not a nervy woman, to begin with, and she had made a great point of cultivating self-control.
And it all spelled Adventure. Very well; I would tackle this new world. I "lined" myself up alongside those road-kids. I was just as strong as any of them, just as quick, just as nervy, and my brain was just as good. After the swim, as evening came on, they dressed and went up town. I went along.
"Worry him?" exclaimed Robin sharply; "how do you mean?" "Well," said Bruce, "Parrish was a very easygoing fellow, you know. He worked every one himself included like the devil, of course. But he was hardly ever nervy or grumpy. And so I was a bit surprised to find after I had been with him for a time that every now and then he sort of shrivelled up.
"Who's the nervy party with the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?" asked the Captain of Sahwah, scowling crossly after the leading boat, which was already drawing away from the rest of the party. "He's an artist, his name is Prince," replied Sahwah. "He's a great friend of Agony's father." "Is he a great friend of Hinpoha's, too?" demanded the Captain.
It was the conductor of the trolley car, just reaching the spot, who told how Dick Prescott and Mr. Luce had leaped from the moving car. The sub-master described Dick's feat in climbing the apple tree and leaping from the limb of the tree to the top of the loaded hay wagon. "It was a nervy thing for any man to do!" choked the farmer, tears of joy running down his cheeks.
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