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He paused at the door to give his wife a kiss, and put a flask of port into his pocket. "Don't overtire your leg, Val, and don't bet too much." With the pressure of her chest against his own, and her eyes looking into his, Val felt both leg and pocket safe. He should be moderate; Holly was always right she had a natural aptitude.

"Well, you are at home now, anyway," said Cicely, "and you can jog along the road to complete recovery at your own pace. A little quiet shooting this autumn and a little hunting, just enough to keep you fit and not to overtire you; you mustn't overtax your strength." "I'm getting my strength back all right," said Yeovil. "This journey hasn't tired me half as much as one might have expected.

To my amazement I saw Egnatius Capito approaching. No wonder I was amazed. I knew him but slightly. I should never have thought of asking to see him, as I had asked to be allowed to see several of my semi-intimates. Agathemer had insisted that I postpone seeing them, because an interview with any of them was likely to overtire me.

Nicky will soon be down for the Easter recess, and then I shall be so carefully looked after I shall not get the chance to overtire myself." "Nicky has turned out a dear boy, and good son," said Judy kindly. "Nicky always was a dear boy even at his most elusive.

THE INFLUENCE OF WORK UPON PREGNANCY. No single influence is more unfavorable to comfort and health during pregnancy than is idleness, so that every prospective should occupy herself with congenial work and fitting diversions. The kind of occupation makes no essential difference, so long as it does not overtire either the body or the mind.

He paused at the door to give his wife a kiss, and put a flask of port into his pocket. "Don't overtire your leg, Val, and don't bet too much." With the pressure of her chest against his own, and her eyes looking into his, Val felt both leg and pocket safe. He should be moderate; Holly was always right she had a natural aptitude.

"Well, Mimi," she said in her low, vibrating voice, as she stood over the bed, "I do hope you didn't overtire yourself this afternoon." Then she kissed Mimi. "Oh no, mamma!" The little girl smiled. "It seems you waited outside the barber's while Jeannot was having his hair cut." "Yes, mamma. I didn't like to go in." "Ada didn't stay with you all the time?" "No, mamma.

The boy was able to walk twelve miles in a day without undue fatigue, resting a good deal, and taking his own time; but in a general way he rode his pony when he went on any long excursion, and dismounted from time to time as the fancy took him. 'I'm afraid he may overtire himself with Mr. Wendover, said Ida, anxious to give a good reason for her anxiety.

He was beginning to think that it was almost time for him to begin hunting again, when one morning a rustle was heard in the creepers outside, and the hare's head peeped through. "Ah! there is no need to ask how you are," she said. "Still you mustn't overtire yourself, you know. Shall I go and bring you your dinner?"

Ruth herself was accustomed to drive with her father to the school which she attended a rival school, as it happened, of the fashionable one at which Roberta taught. She was not so strong as her sister, and a two-mile walk to school was apt to overtire her.