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Updated: May 11, 2025
The vagrant had been seized by a violent fit of coughing, so fierce that it threatened hemorrhage; and Susanna's wrath died. "Consumption!" she whispered to Eunice, and shivered. It was of consumption "Spriggs, he" had died. The paroxysm passed and left its victim exhausted. With a longing for rest, he tottered out of the kitchen into the lean-to, but not to wash as its owner had suggested.
"It's this way, Munro," said he, when he had got over his paroxysm. "You have probably heard in fact, I have told you myself that my father had the finest practice in Scotland. As far as I could judge he was a man of no capacity, but still there you are he had it." I nodded and smoked. "Well, he's been dead seven years, and fifty nets dipping into his little fish-pond.
The Marana, so keen to know the signs of love, had recognized in that man the accents of passion and the brusque nature, the generous impulses, that are common to Southerners. In the paroxysm of her anger and her distress she had thought such qualities enough for her daughter's happiness.
In a paroxysm of fear, joined to emotional excitement, he fell upon his knees, and pleaded for mercy for the sake of one chance in life, for the family name, for Kathleen's sake, for the sake of everything he had ruthlessly dishonoured. Tears came readily to his eyes, real tears of excitement; but he could measure, too, the strength of his appeal.
"It's the worst I ever had," he said, after a moment "the very worst!" He sat down, and again he had a fit of coughing, and the sweat started out violently upon his forehead and cheek. When his head at last lay back against the chair, the paroxysm over, a little spot of blood showed and spread upon his white lips.
The grief and consternation of Kory-Kory, in particular, was unbounded; he threw himself into a perfect paroxysm of gestures, which were intended to convey to us, not only his abhorrence of Nukuheva and its uncivilized inhabitants, but also his astonishment that, after becoming acquainted with the enlightened Typees, we should evince the least desire to withdraw, even for a time, from their agreeable society.
She was visited by a paroxysm of the complaint called homesickness. And the season, which was the most heavenly period of the spring, added stings to this yearning. That was one of her maladies nostalgia, as medicine calls it; the other was weariness and exhaustion from daily combats with malice.
As those knavish enthusiasts, the French prophets, courted inspiration by mimicking the writhings, swoonings, and gaspings which they considered as its symptoms, he attempted, by affected fits of poetical fury, to bring on a real paroxysm; and, like them, he got nothing but his distortions for his pains.
Vladimir turned on him, opened his lips, closed them again and gazed, silently, at his comrade. Ivan returned the look for a few seconds, stared read possibly understood. At all events his face suddenly quivered, and then he began to laugh! He passed from one paroxysm to another, till de Windt, in a blind rage, took him by the shoulders and shook him, violently, to silence.
Beside it sat the dead man, leaning back in his chair, his thin beard projecting, his spectacles pushed up on to his forehead, and his lean dark face turned towards the window and twisted into the same distortion of terror which had marked the features of his dead sister. His limbs were convulsed and his fingers contorted as though he had died in a very paroxysm of fear.
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