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She drew away from him, in terror. "Oh, hush!" she whispered. "Don't ask! Don't unnerve me, sir. Help me to think of her, only." Then, more calmly: "But of course I shall think of none but her, while she needs me. Only only, sir as you are so kind " she drew from her bosom a crumpled telegram, and handed it to the doctor. "Mine came at the same time as hers," she said, simply.
Flinging it far to one side he stood motionless for just an instant glaring into my face with such a horrid leer of malignant triumph as to almost unnerve me then he sprang for me with his bare hands. But it was Jubal's day to learn new methods of warfare.
It no doubt gives its wearer a certain advantage in combat a confidence and conceit in his own ability, and, likely, it tends to unnerve a combatant who has not the same emblem and experience.
They would not stand heavy punishment, and in attacking a fort generally relied upon a single headlong rush, made under cover of darkness or as a surprise; they tried to unnerve their antagonists by the sudden fury of their onslaught and the deafening accompaniment of whoops and yells.
This question, simple as it was, seemed to both terrify and unnerve her. Stumbling back, she looked me wildly in the eye and answered, with an effrontery she had never shown me before, that she was flying to escape a hated marriage.
"If his heart were a shade stronger, I should. But as it is, the only thing that sustains him is the force of his will-power. Do you want me to unnerve the very strength which keeps him alive?" She shuddered. "Do you mean that if he sleeps it will be death?" "I have told you before," said the doctor, "that there are phases of this case which I do not understand. I predict nothing with certainty.
The strangeness of the situation, the certainty of speedy and startling rehabilitation, perhaps the joy of vengeance, the silence, which was so profound that he could hear his own panting breath, and the many eyes riveted upon him, all combined to unnerve him. But only for a moment.
"Is this man Morris Barnes your friend?" she asked, breaking a silence which had done more than anything else to unnerve him. "No!" he answered. "I scarcely know the man. I have never seen him except in the lift, or on the stairs." "Then you have no excuse for keeping me here," she declared. "I may be his friend, or I may be his enemy.
The letters of such soldiers as these are the best recruiting-sergeants that can be sent abroad among any people; just as the letters of whining, lugubrious or dissatisfied men, who have gone into war without expecting any of its dangers or discomforts who are satisfied with no fare less luxurious than that served up at Delmonico's or the Maison Dorée, and who protest against any sleeping which is not done upon spring-mattresses strown with rose-leaves, cannot do otherwise than discourage and unnerve the whole immediate community in which they fall.
"Get up, Any; open the lowest drawer of my desk, the large one; they are all there, all. You must take them and throw them into the fire." She did not move at all, but remained crouching, as if he had counseled her to do something cowardly. "Any, I entreat you!" he continued; "if you do not do this, you will torture me, unnerve me, drive me mad.
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