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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Take it to Captain Raleigh. Maybe he will give you something for it," said his friend. "This is no joking matter," declared Frank. "I'm not naturally nervous, as you know, but right now my nerves are on edge." "Just the after effects of the battle," said Jack, quietly. "You are all unstrung." "I'm unstrung, all right," Frank admitted, "but the battle had nothing to do with it.
You love Kentucky but I cannot make myself over." Her face grew full of the finest memories and all the fibres of her nature were becoming more unstrung.
For she could play the banjo, and it appeared that she must have said so to Francis in those first days. "He must have dashed home and made out lists every night!" she concluded as she dragged it out. It was unstrung, but new strings lay near it, coiled in their papers. And under the papers, so like them that he had forgotten to destroy it, lay a veritable note.
His nerves were unstrung by the bald, colorless report of Putney Congdon's disappearance, which shocked him all the more from the fact that it was so hideously commonplace, merely a bit of journalistic routine. He wished the Governor would stop reading newspapers.
My previous five years as a neurasthenic had led me to believe that I had experienced all the disagreeable sensations an overworked and unstrung nervous system could suffer. But on this day several new and terrifying sensations seized me and rendered me all but helpless. My condition, however, was not apparent even to those who worked with me at the same desk.
The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place. "There were now other footsteps to be heard along the road. Bathsheba's nerves were still unstrung: she crouched down out of sight again, and the pedes- trian came into view.
And Don Ippolito had been so uniformly kind to us. I begin to believe that Mr. Ferris caught your true character in that sketch. But your pride will be broken some day, Florida." "Won't you let me help you undress, mother? You can talk to me while you're undressing. You must try to get some rest." "Yes, I am all unstrung. Why couldn't you have let him come in and talk awhile?
The young wife had hardly left the room when Madame Desvarennes suffered the reaction of the emotion she had just felt. Her nerves were unstrung, and falling on a chair she remained immovable and humbled. Was it possible that her daughter, her adored child, would abandon her to obey the grudges of her husband?
"We shall have to play out the game tonight, at least," I said, startled by her earnestness. "I will talk with Coombs, and will tell you the result tomorrow. Your nerves are all unstrung, and the affair may appear different by daylight." She put her hand in mine, her eyes on my face. "No; it is not my nerves. See, my hand does not tremble; I am not afraid physically.
"I'm on my way to catch it now, dear Sedgwick, just as soon as I break away from the lady," he called back insolently. "I'll marry you." The words came from a parched throat. "To-night," he demanded. "Not to-night," she begged. "When we get back to Panama." "No. I'm not going to give you a chance to welch. Now here on this schooner." "Not to-night. I'm so weary and unstrung.
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