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It can be given out that she has gone to Maritzburg, and I shall tell her" Karyl smiled with a cynical humor "that I am over-weary with this task of Kingship, and that I shall join her within a few days for a brief truancy from the cares of state." "It may be the safest thing," reflected the officer. "It at least frees our minds of a burdensome anxiety." "I shall persuade her," declared Karyl.
And a priest, too! Kim looked up, over-weary to smile, shaking his head in denial. 'Do not jest, said the lama. 'That time is done. We are here upon great matters. A sickness of soul took me in the Hills, and him a sickness of the body. Since then I have lived upon his strength eating him. 'Children together young and old, she sniffed, but forbore to make any new jokes.
Leave the child to me he is only over-weary." Osmond was sure his Duke was among friends, and would have been glad to trust him to a woman; but Richard had but one instinct left in all his weakness and exhaustion to cling close to Osmond, as if he felt him his only friend and protector; for he was, as yet, too much worn out to understand that he was in Normandy and safe.
I am a messenger of peace; I bear good tidings to thee, not ill-news. Thou must away with me at once." "I cannot go; but see! my lamp is out. I must light it again. You see how indifferent I am," he apologetically exclaimed, "I even fall asleep over my prayers." "Ha! I perceive thou art over-weary; take my advice for the once, and do not rise so soon, nor pray so long."
I suppose I was over-weary, and after a little feverish slumber by the tiller of the barge I sat up, awake and uneasy.... 'That night Holland seemed all sky. There was just a little black lower rim to things, a steeple, perhaps, or a line of poplars, and then the great hemisphere swept over us. As at first the sky was empty. Yet my uneasiness referred itself in some vague way to the sky.
And, if I outlive the work and the danger and the weariness, I'll praise God for that. And it doesn't let up a single day. And I'm no worse off than everybody else. So this over-weary world goes, dear Effendi; but the longest day shades at last down to twilight and rest; and so this will be.
He had heard of the old Grand Union Hotel, and drowsily, with the stuffy nose and sandy eyes and unclean feeling about the teeth that overpower one who sleeps in a smoking-car, he staggered across to the hotel and spent his first conquering night in filling a dollar room with vulgar sounds of over-weary slumber. But he did not find a job.
The pathos of this continual pre-occupation, in a man so old, sick, and over-weary, and whom I looked upon as a mere bundle of dying bones and death-pains, put me wholly from my victuals: it seemed there was an element of sin, a kind of rude bravado of youth, in the mere relishing of food at the same table with this tragic father; and though I was well enough used to the coarse, plain diet of the English, I ate scarce more than himself.
Mile after mile her image kept him company, and once, when he had left Voreppe behind him, the greater portion of his journey done, some devil whispered in his ear that he was weary; that he would be over-weary on the morrow for any ride to La Rochette. He had done all that mortal man could do; let him rest to-morrow whilst Marius and Fortunio accomplished by Florimond what the fever had begun.
Nay, as the sounds, which were at no time very loud, mingled with the piping of the gale without and the rustling of the old elm at the door, they lost their harshness, and were softened into a descant that was lulling to the senses, and might, like a gentler nepenthe, have, in time, cheated the over-weary mind to repose. Such, perhaps, was beginning to be its effect.
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