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Shirley was all unstrung, trying to overcome the emotion which her discovery had caused her, and in a strangely altered voice, the result of the nervous strain she was under, she said: "You want me to come here?" She looked up from the letters she was reading across to Ryder, who was standing watching her on the other side of the desk.
"Just see how unstrung you are. Every step you take you imagine you hear rattlers sounding their warning." "Do you tell me, on your sacred honor," proposed Alf, "that you haven't heard a single rattler this afternoon?" "I give you my most solemn word that I haven't," Tom answered. "Come, come, Alf! What you want to do is to shake off the trembles. Let me take your arm. Now, walk briskly with me.
"With charming simplicity, madam," responded Mr. Dapper. "She landed at Harwich, and had an ovation all the way to London. People hurrahed, bells rang, and cannon thundered. The poor girl was terribly frightened. The thought of meeting a husband whom she had never seen unstrung her nerves.
Is George sick?" "No, George is not sick," said Fanny, "but—," and then as well as she could she told him all she knew. Uncle Joshua’s nervous system was unstrung, and his physical health impaired by long nights of watching with his wife, and now when this fresh shock came upon him, he fell back half-fainting upon his pillow. Then rousing himself, he said, "Alive and come back!
Nevertheless, as he passed up the Great Council Chamber amid that silence, and met strange looks on faces which were wont to smile, his courage for one moment, even in that familiar scene conscience makes cowards of all wavered. His smile grew sickly, his nerves seemed suddenly unstrung, his knees shook under him.
"Let's you an' me get her in her bedroom, an' have her lay down on the bed, an' try an' quiet her," she whispered. "She's all unstrung. Mebbe she'll be better." Mrs. Field at once turned toward her. "I ain't Esther Maxwell," said she. "O Mis' Field! oh, poor woman! it ain't for us to judge you," returned Mrs. Green, in her tender, inexpressibly solemn voice. "Come, Lois."
"He said he was sorry to see you looked pale yesterday when he was asking you; and he was afraid that embroidery is not good for you. He thinks you are a very charming girl " And Mrs. Evelyn went off into little fits of laughter, which unstrung all Fleda's nerves. She stood absolutely trembling. "Mamma, don't plague her!" said Constance. "He didn't say so." "He did! upon my word!" said Mrs.
The exertion of successive dinner-giving above all, of bachelor dinner-giving and that too in the country, where men sit, talk, talk, talking, sip, sip, sipping, and 'just another bottle-ing'; more, we believe, from want of something else to do than from any natural inclination to exceed; the exertion, we say, of such parties had completely unstrung our fat friend, and ill-prepared his nerves for such a shock.
But the woman, whose excited and unstrung nerves led her astray from one subject to another with preternatural celerity, said, with an hysterical laugh, "See, Dummie, they come in state for me; give me the cap yonder and bring the looking-glass!"
The warm weather had unstrung my nerves and made me sensitive to every jar and jostle and discordant sound.
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