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Gully was now permitted to obey her instincts; the natural result could be attributed to overstrung feelings. Just when the mourners had grown noisily hilarious, testifying thereby to the respectability with which things were being conducted to the very end, Mrs. Peckover became aware of a knocking at the front-door. She bade her daughter go and see who it was.
At that Frank bit her lip, and stinging tears an unusual phenomenon blinded her eyes. But she was overstrung by a week of hard nursing; and some childless women never loss the tragic sense of incompleteness, the unacknowledged ache of empty arms. "Spared? Ah, me dear, you ought to know me better by now," she protested reproachfully. "I've no use at all for cheap comforts o' that kind.
And Patty's overstrung nerves gave way, and she began to cry. "I won't, dear, I won't, if it bothers you," and Big Bill's arm went round her in such a comforting way that Patty wept on his broad shoulder. "Don't, don't think me a silly," she said, smiling up at him through her tears, "but I'm so tired, and sleepy, if you could just wait till morning, I'd tell you then what I think of you."
Then her thoughts reverted to her great basket full of good things which they had so greedily devoured the two fowls in their glittering coat of jelly, her patties, her pears, her four bottles of claret; and her fury suddenly subsided like the breaking of an overstrung chord and she felt that she was on the verge of tears.
'Isn't it possible, isn't it even probable that being ill, and overstrung, moping a little over things more or less out of the common ruck, and sitting there in a kind of trance isn't it possible that you may have very largely IMAGINED the change? Hypnotised yourself into believing it much worse more profound, radical, acute and simply absolutely hypnotizing others into thinking so, too.
Perhaps he had been fanciful he was undoubtedly overstrung but, through such dreams as he indulged in, passing glimpses of strange and splendid visions that transfigure the toil and clamor of a material world are now and then granted to wayfaring men. At noon the next day they reached the head of the valley.
If I'd your natural advantages in the way of locomotion, I wouldn't be so slow of using them " He looked up, and slipped back into a sitting position hastily. "Oh, mother, I thought you had gone!" he exclaimed, almost sharply. And to Katherine, overstrung as she was, the words came as a rebuke. "My dearest, I won't keep you," she said. "I only came back to ask you about Honoria St. Quentin."
"No doubt you are right, Thalassa," he said in his usual tone. "My nerves are a little overstrung, I fancy. You said the house was locked up for the night, I think?" "Everything bolted and barred," said Thalassa, and left the room. He returned downstairs to the kitchen, where he wandered restlessly about, occasionally pausing to look out of the window into the darkness of the night.
She turned the appeal of her face and saw a sudden pitiful consideration in Hilda's, and as if it called them forth two tears sprang to her eyes and fell, as she lowered her delicate head upon her lap. "Dear thing! I didn't indeed. If I meant anything it was that I'm overstrung. I've been horribly harried lately." She possessed herself of one of Alicia's hands and stroked it.
And she marvelled, again and again she marvelled, at his forbearance. Calmly and uneventfully the endless summer days slipped by. Her strength was undoubtedly returning to her, the youth in her reviving. The long rest was taking effect upon her. The overstrung nerves were growing steady again. Often she would sit and ponder upon the future, but she had no definite idea to guide her.
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