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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. 'Tis a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
Here come the crowd from church. The Christmas service is very beautiful. Do you recall it, Humphrey?" "Only in spots like the varioloid." They were quite in the crowd now, and so ceased speaking, and presently the Colonel was considerably in advance of his companion.
Chamberlin and Mrs. Dewhurst, on board the steamer, but there was nothing for them to do, and we walked back to camp in the radiant moonlight; Mrs. Chamberlin more than ever strengthened in her blushing woman's philosophy, 'I don't care who wins the laurels, provided we don't!" "February 29. "But for a few trivial cases of varioloid, we should certainly have been in that disastrous fight.
"I am not afraid of the varioloid, and henceforth I shall think gratefully of it for having dealt so lightly with you." So saying, he turned away, feeling happier than he could well express, that Maude had not only escaped from death, but that there would be no marks left to tell how near the ravager had been.
A good, well-established, old-fashioned rheumatis' I say nothing of your new-fangled diseases, like the cholera, and varioloid, and animal magnitudes but a good old-fashioned rheumatis', such as people used to have when I was a boy, is as certain a barometer as that which is at this moment hanging up in the coach-house here, within two fathoms of the very spot where we are standing.
"'If you think the amount of small-pox in the First South Carolina Volunteers sufficient, the order will be countermanded. "'What shall I say? quoth the guilty General, perceiving how preposterously too late the negotiation was reopened. "'Say, sir? quoth I. 'Say that we are on board already and the small-pox left behind. Say we had only thirteen cases, chiefly varioloid, and ten almost well.
Every artist has occasional attacks of Artistic Jealousy, and happy is the man who contents himself with the varioloid variety. Cellini had three kinds: acute, virulent and chronic. Berloiz has worked the man up into a strong and sinewy drama, several others have done the same, but it will require the combined skill of Rostand, Mansfield and Samuel Eberly Gross to ever do the character justice.
Her complaint may be even worse than typhoid I can't quite make out certain whitish blotches on her skin. I should suspect small-pox or varioloid, but that there has not been a case reported here for years. Where has she been of late?" Olympia turned ghastly white with horror. "O doctor, she has been nursing Jack, who was for weeks in the small-pox ward at Point Lookout!" "Good God!
Many months have elapsed since I saw her last, but Robert Maclean told me to-day that she was sadly changed in appearance, and seemed in feeble health. She did not tell you that she had been dangerously ill with varioloid, contracted while nursing her husband.
There was a momentary conflict, and then, with an inward prayer that Heaven would protect her, she passed on down the narrow hall and knocked softly at No. , while Sarah stood wringing her hands in genuine distress, and feeling as if her young mistress had gone to certain ruin. Julia had the smallpox, not varioloid, but the veritable thing itself, in its most aggravated form.
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