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Gentlemen, as a class, were not held in high esteem at Killamet. Even Captain Norris laughed at fine manners, and would doubtless say, "Oh, give the boy a chance to try his sea-legs, if he wants to a little toughening won't hurt him." No one but Miss Prue would thoroughly sympathize with, and stand by her, and what were she and Miss Prue against so many?
And that particular toughening process which had been working on him for years now aided in his speedy adaption to a new set of facts, formidable ones. He was alone on a strange and perhaps hostile world. Water, food, safe shelter, those were important now.
Take you way up into the mountains, and when you got used to roughing it in sure-enough wilderness say you'd helped me haul timber for a flume then we'd be real pals. You have the stuff in you, but you still need toughening before " "Listen to me, Milton.
Even at great heights he never felt the slightest dizziness, and when he had caught the knack of the swing and the release, he could hurl himself through space from branch to branch with even greater agility than the heavier Akut. And with exposure came a toughening and hardening of his smooth, white skin, browning now beneath the sun and wind.
When, justly or unjustly, others attack or hurt or worry or anger or annoy me, the knowledge that through the very trial I am toughening within, where so often I am without moral muscle, can be a perceptible support. C. Of the two main trials we bring on ourselves I suppose it would be only right to put sickness first.
It developed what little executive ability I possessed, and I was aware of a toughening or hardening which I was undergoing and which could not be anything but wholesome for "Sissy" Van Weyden. One thing I was beginning to feel, and that was that I could never again be quite the same man I had been.
He's in hard training, too, and that has now and then a much bigger effect than the toughening of his muscles upon the man who submits himself to it. Is it a portrait or a type?" The speaker was from the metropolis, and while Arabella hesitated, Ida answered him with a suggestive ring in her voice. "It's both, one should like to think," she said.
Polly even as he ran; if Uncle Jim had strength and brute courage and the rich toughening experience a Reformatory Home affords, Mr. Polly was nevertheless sober, more mobile and with a mind now stimulated to an almost incredible nimbleness. So that he not only gained on Uncle Jim, but thought what use he might make of this advantage.
The hard bed, with light covering, the cold room, the cold bath will now aid in toughening the boy, provided he is healthy; but under no circumstances begin that until the pubertal period is fully by. The danger of over-pressure in the high school, especially after the first year, is to my mind not very great.
E. was not the selfish type of the neurasthenic; he was gentle and kind and ready to share with everybody, a lovable boy of an intensely sociable nature. Nevertheless, his high excitability and his quick fatigue made it necessary to shelter him, for any effort at toughening merely brought about a "breakdown." Here we must reemphasize the fundamental importance of the fatigue reactions.
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