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Some also tried to caress the women and drag them away.... Then the lady missionary began to weep in a quiet and hopeless way, because she was really courageous and only entirely over-strung.
They conversed among themselves only in whispers, until even the whispering ceased, and nothing could be heard but the steady ticking of the clock, and now and then the quick-drawn breath of some timid on-looker. Suddenly, a woman, whose nerves were over-strung, shrieked, and the cry rang weirdly through the crowded hall.
Her friend Lushington realised the change as soon as she landed, and it hurt him to see it, because it seemed to him a great pity that what he had thought an ideal, and therefore a natural manifestation of art, should be losing the fine outlines that had made it perfect to his devoted gaze. But this was not all. His rather over-strung moral sense was offended as well as his artistic taste.
Alton leaned upon the table a trifle more heavily, his eyes half-closed, and one hand clenched. "Yes," he said slowly. "There is a way and I'm beginning to see it now. Get your hat, Jack, and in the first place we'll go right along and see Mr. Cartier." The lad rose, and then, possibly because he was over-strung and needed relief in some direction, laughed harshly.
"If such a course succeeds with an uncultured moujik, it is equally efficacious when it concerns an enlightened, intelligent, or even distinguished man. For the main thing, my dear friend, is to determine in what sense a man is developed. The man, I mean, is intelligent, but he has nerves which are OVER-strung.
The curate paused, and looked at her earnestly, surprised at her look and manner. "Yes, my dearest," he said. "But God was merciful." "Oh! Angus," she said; and now relief came to her, for as she spoke she began to weep. "You are good, you are brave, you could have let him go. But for me for me it would have killed me. I should have died or gone mad!" "Lottie dear my darling, you are over-strung.
Rapt and absorbed in discount and dollars, in bills and merchandise, the over-strung mind deems itself all the body is forgotten, the physical body, which is subject to growth and change, just as the plants and the very grass of the field. But there is a subtle connection between the physical man and the great nature which comes pressing up so closely to the metropolis.
While she spoke, it was repeated. Her over-strung nerves gave way. As Tabs rose, she clung to him beseechingly. "Don't let him in. I'm not ready for him. Don't let him in. Go outside and send him away. Tell him anything. But don't let him enter." Tabs had no clear idea to whom she was referring. It might have been to Adair. It might have been to Pollock.
It seems a kind of hacking and hacking, bit by bit." "You are certainly very fond of him," said Pensée. "Yes, I am. He's so dependable." Pensée engaged a private cabin for the crossing, and she retired there with her maid. Too tired and over-strung to sleep, she lay down, closed her eyes, and lived again through the many fatiguing, agitating moments of that day.
Christine gave a little smothered cry, and the next instant burst into tears. It was too much for her over-strung nerves. At the same moment the baby waked and began to cry weakly.
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