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"Dear fellow; he must be careful, he is overworking himself." Even the unsatisfactory letter would produce nothing worse than this from her; but now, at the moment of which I am writing, she was in a paradise of happy thoughts. Her visit to Clavering had been in every respect successful. She had been liked by every one, and every one in return had been liked by her. Mrs.
The heat of the capital and the late hours brought out dark shadows under his eyes, and gave her another excuse for saying that he was overworking for her sake, and that she was a burden upon him she and the child. On the morning before he next went to Rome, she received a letter from Reanda. The blood rushed scarlet to her face, but Griggs was busy with his own letters and did not see it.
"But all's well that ends well, and now tell me what brings you here, for I know it must be urgent business or you'd never have ventured through such a storm." Jack hastily told the doctor of his father's stroke. The medical man looked grave. "I'll go with you just as soon as I can pack my bag," he said. "Your father had been overworking.
'She has not been looking well lately, but Dr. Mayerne says it is nothing, and you know' she blushed and looked down 'there were many things to make this a trying time. 'Is she quite strong? Can she do as much as usual? 'She does more than ever: mamma is only afraid of her overworking herself, but she never allows that she is tired.
She's been busy on the wire again, this time locatin' him at home. "My poor cousin," says she, "is in a wretched state. He has been overworking, I fear, and seems to be a nervous wreck. That will account, I have no doubt, for his recent lapses into profanity. He feels rather ashamed of himself; but perhaps I should make allowances. What he needs is rest and quiet.
He is coming down for a few days I think he hasn't been well overworking, he says." "I can scarcely believe," said Aunt Philippa, with her acid smile, "that a Wyndham could ever suffer from that complaint." "They don't over-rest, anyhow," said Mordaunt, with a glance at his wife's tired face. "I shall be very pleased to see him, Chris. Write and tell him so."
If one of the sisters was with her, they would stop and speak to him; otherwise she passed him by in such an eager consciousness of her part that he smiled and then sighed. When she had a companion, Lewis and the other Shakeress would gossip about the weather or the haying, and Lewis would have the chance to say: "You're not overworking, 'Thalia? You're not tired?"
When a woman's back aches with overworking herself to keep her house in shape, and a dozen mouths are opening at her three times a day, like them little young birds that split their heads open so you can a'most see into their empty stomachs, and one wants this and another wants that, and provisions is dear and rent is high, and nobody to look to, then a sharp word cuts, I tell you, and a hard look goes right to your heart.
The sun had set, and the long twilight was giving way to darkness when they came down the trail into the upper end of the camp. Some embryo artist was painfully overworking an accordion, while a dog rendered melancholy by the unmusical noise, occasionally accompanied him with prolonged howls.
"I do not look at the matter in that way," I said. "An absorbing labor will be good for me. My undertaking may result in overworking you, for you will be obliged to act as my under-study even more frequently than you do now." "Oh, I'm not afraid of work," said he; "I can stand any amount of it. But how about the evening discourses, will they come to an end?"
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