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His grumpy silence of other days, his sardonic humour, gave place to hypochondriac complainings and outbursts of fierce temper. Pony had hurt his foot in a machine at the factory and it required daily dressing. Johnnie understood from the sounds which greeted her that the sore foot was being bandaged. "Hold still, cain't ye?" growled Himes. "I ain't a-hurtin' ye.
"Now, Janet darling, you are yourself low and nervous, and you treat this fancy of Bale's as seriously as he does himself. The truth is, he is a hypochondriac, as the doctors say; and you will find that I am right; he will be quite well in the morning, and I daresay a little ashamed of himself for having frightened his poor little wife as he has. I will sit up with you.
But the man who wrote Ulysses when his grief was fresh could not be suspected of declining into a hypochondriac. "If I mean to make my mark at all, it must be by shortness," he said at this time; "for the men before me had been so diffuse, and most of the big things, except King Arthur, had been done."
So long as Colin shut himself up in his room and thought only of his fears and weakness and his detestation of people who looked at him and reflected hourly on humps and early death, he was a hysterical half-crazy little hypochondriac who knew nothing of the sunshine and the spring and also did not know that he could get well and could stand upon his feet if he tried to do it.
A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away. I lingered; the moon shut herself wholly within her chamber, and drew close her curtain of dense cloud: the night grew dark; rain came driving fast on the gale. "I wish he would come! I wish he would come!" I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding.
The company, therefore, took their places, and addressed themselves to the serious business of the feast, but were soon disturbed by the hypochondriac, who thrust back his chair, complaining that a dish of stewed toads and vipers was set before him, and that there was green ditchwater in his cup of wine. This mistake being amended, he quietly resumed his seat.
I can imagine the hypochondriac being cured by mental stimulus." He felt that he was drawing near the point at issue, and his eyes shone with glee. The preacher set his trap. "You believe in the action of a drug say, prussic acid you believe it will kill?" "Yes, and quite irrespective of the opinion of the one who takes it.
"'How does it feel to be drunk once more? he asked, with his damnable sneer. 'It makes you look less of a hypochondriac, anyhow. "Granny Zeal" that's what the girls call you. "'If they do I've no doubt you taught them, I replied, in tones as low as his own. Several men were seated not far off, but neither of us hung out a storm signal. "'I did, he said. 'Not but that I had had revenge enough.
The quotation is an adaptation of: It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh Which some did die to look on. "Antony and Cleopatra," Act I., Scene 4, lines 67-68. It is perhaps worth remarking that in David Copperfield Dickens has a school incident of a similar character. Mr. Hathaway. Matthias Hathaway, steward from 1790 to 1813. I was a hypochondriac lad.
It may be supposed that many odd people are to be met at such a place; strong-minded women who have broken through the trammels of the Faculty, and gone to the Water Cure in spite of the warnings of their medical men, and their friends' kind predictions that they would never live to come back; and hypochondriac men, who have tried all quack remedies in vain, and who have come despairingly to try one which, before trying it, they probably looked to as the most violent and perilous of all.
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