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Updated: June 17, 2025
I felt her hand trembling under mine, but I had not the courage to look at her. I heard her call my name again a little cry, the very poignancy of pity and distress. It almost unnerved me. "I knew that you loved her, Hugh," she said. "It was only only a little while after you married me that I found it out. I guessed it women do guess such things long before you realized it yourself.
And he had been in the ocean and seen his ship go down with a torpedo's jagged rent in her side. But he had never been lost in the water in the sense of losing all his bearings in the darkness. For a minute it quite unnerved him and his stout heart sank within him. Then out of the tumult came a thin, spent voice, barely audible and seeming a part of the troubled voices of the night.
Fain would others have been the same support; but his father, though not leaving him, was completely unnerved, and unable to do anything; and Mrs. Ponsonby was suffering under one of the attacks that were brought on by any sudden agitation.
"But I have been given long sight, that's all." She rose to her feet with a sigh. "And I," she said very sadly, "am blind." Down by the gate the blue jay laughed again, laughed and flew away. In a darkened room Netta Ermsted lay, trembling and unnerved. As usual in cases of adversity, Mrs. Ralston had taken charge of her; but there was very little that she could do.
Waldeaux for the penny's hire for her chair. As he hobbled away, he looked back at her curiously. "She gave him a shilling!" exclaimed Lisa, as he passed them. "I told you she was not fit to take care of money." "But why not wait until to-morrow to talk of business? She is hurt and unnerved just now, and she she does not like you, Lisa." "I am not afraid. She will be civil.
I saw one at some distance, and eagerly made towards it. I was not disappointed, for no sooner had I reached it than I saw in the centre a grove of cocoa-nut palms. But how should I be able to climb so tall a tree, weak and unnerved as I was!
"What did I tell you?" shouted O'Flarety. This hateful reminder brought Alfred again to the protection of his young and defenceless wife. "The excitement has unnerved her," he said to the officer. "Ain't you about done with my kids?" asked O'Flarety, marvelling how any man with so little penetration as the officer, managed to hold down a "good payin' job."
As three o'clock drew on the talk grew less and less. It broke out now and again in little uneasy bursts. Someone would tell a joke. Half hysterical laughter would greet it, and die suddenly, as it began. These were all hard-faced men of the mountain-desert, warriors of the frontier. What unnerved them was the strangeness of the thing which was about to happen.
The reaction from their excitement made Larry and Horace tremble and, for the time, they could only look from their companion to the carcass of the bear, too unnerved to speak. Tom was the first to recover from the fright, and he thanked the others for what they had done. "Let's not talk about it," interposed Larry. "The thing for us to do is to get out of here lively.
Although tears came very rarely to her eyes, the orphan had wept bitterly, and, surprised at finding herself so completely unnerved on this occasion, she made a powerful effort to regain her composure and usual stolidity of expression. Shaking the little sleeper, she said, "Wake up, Stanley. Get your hat and come with me, at least for to-night."
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