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At last they produced his death by the application of a poisoned clyster, by which he next day in painful agonies expired. A man's best fortune or his worst's a wife, Yet I, that knew no marriage, peace nor strife Live by a good one, by a bad one lost my life.
Rebecca, set down in that low chair beside the board, and, Jane, you spread out her hair on it and cover it up with brown paper. Don't cringe, Rebecca; the worst's over, and you've borne up real good! I'll be careful not to pull your hair nor scorch you, and oh, how I'd like to have Alice Robinson acrost my knee and a good slipper in my right hand!
We must have a carriage," he added with tardy wisdom, hailing an empty hack, "as we ought to have had all day; though I'm not sorry, now the worst's over, to have seen the worst." There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure: a headache darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations.
Thus progress was slow and fraught with agony. As they rose near the pass, miles of Arctic wastes bared themselves. All about towered bald domes, while everywhere stretched the monotonous white, the endless snow unbroken by tree or shrub, pallid and menacing, maddening to the eye. "Thank God, the worst's over," sighed Willard, flinging himself onto the sled.
Bewildered, Sylvia's eyes shifted from the toiling men to the distance, across the blackened desolation near them, to where the fire still tossed its wicked crest of flames defiantly into the forest. She heard, but she did not believe the words of the men in the car, who cried out expertly as they ran forward, "Oh, the worst's over. They're shutting down on it."
"But they'll have to do to me whatever they do to Father!" cried Cissy, earnestly. "Dear child, thou wist not what burning is." "Oh, but I've burnt my fingers before now," said Cissy, with an air of extensive experience which would have suited an old woman. "It's not proper pleasant: but the worst's afterwards, and there wouldn't be any afterwards, would there?
Now, Collie, that's a terrible word. I've heard it many times. An' all my life the worst's been comin'. An' it hasn't come yet. You only twenty years old talkin' wild the worst has come!... Tell me your trouble now an' I'll tell you where you're wrong." "Jack's a thief a cattle-thief!" rang Columbine's voice, high and clear. "Ahuh! Well, go on," said Wade.
Let me fight it out alone. It's been sprung on me. The worst's not over. But I'll win through; wait! And if not well, you shall not suffer, Sheila. Don't be afraid. There are other ways out. Sheila broke down. 'Any one would think to hear you talk, that I was perfectly heartless. I told Ada to be most careful about the cornflour.
"'Passion! 'admire! and still you're dumb?" Lord bless your soul, the worst's to come: I'm forced to bow, as I'm a sinner, And hope the rogue will stay to dinner! But oh, at dinner! there's the sting; I see my cellar on the wing! You know if Burgundy is dear? Her immortality, I fear, a Death-blow will prove to my Madeira; It has given, alas! a mortal shock To that old friend my Steinberg hock!
We must have a carriage," he added with tardy wisdom, hailing an empty hack, "as we ought to have had all day; though I'm not sorry, now the worst's over, to have seen the worst." There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure: a headache darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations.
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