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He went mad from a sun-stroke he got in the fields." "How much do you earn?" "Five sous a day while the season lasts; I catch 'em as far as the Braisne. In harvest time, I glean; in winter, I spin." "You are about twelve years old?" "Yes, monsieur." "Do you want to come with me? You shall be well fed and well dressed, and have some pretty shoes."
"Can't see a thing under his nose," murmured the fair sleeper. "Celia!" said Mr. Quince, sharply. "Celia!" He took a hoe from the wall and prodded her gently with the handle. A singularly vicious expression marred the soft features, but that was all. "Ce-lia!" said the shoemaker, who feared sun-stroke. "Fancy if he had a moment's common sense," murmured Celia, drowsily, "and locked the door."
I had gone out without my hat, and was standing over my pig, watching him eat his wash, when I felt something take my head such a pain, sir, that I had never felt before, and never wish to feel again. I went indoors, and Robin, who might be a boy of five, or so, looked frightened at me, my face was so red. I couldn't hold my head up, sir; and when the doctor came, he said it was a sun-stroke.
We marched rapidly all night, halting at a place called Leytirsburgh. At daylight next morning, we were again marching. The day was extremely hot, and large numbers of the men fell by the wayside from sun-stroke.
All his movements were slow now. Lionel had sat himself down on the settle, his head clasped by both hands, and his pale face turned to fiery red as deep a crimson as Mrs. Verner's was habitually. "A sun-stroke?" echoed old Matthew, leaning on his stick, as he stood before him, attentively regarding Lionel. "Ay, sir, for sure it looks like it.
Nobody knew anything of that inward state, and the sun-stroke got all the blame save, perhaps, from Lionel himself. He may have doubted. One day Jan called in to see him. It was in August.
This made Lance smile; but he added, with a quivering lip, 'He would not go to bed till I could go to sleep last night, and that was not till past two, and he looks quite done up this morning. 'Is any one attending you? 'Dr. Manby did at Minsterham nobody here. 'What's been amiss with you fever? 'Plenty of fever, but it was from sun-stroke.
If he failed to do so, it meant another year in Central Africa, and he did not wish his wife to endure that. But Mrs. Baker was interested deeply in her husband's work, and urged him not to consider her health before accomplishing his task. A few days later she received a sun-stroke, and for several days lay in a litter in an unconscious state.
These Irishmen have thick heads, and they don't die so easily of sun-stroke; for that's what the doctor says it is," replied Laud, knowingly. Nellie thought, if this was a true view of coup de soleil, Laud would never die of it. She thought this; but she was not so impolite as to say it. She asked him no more questions; for she saw Don John approaching through the dining-room.
We certainly have a climate, a two-edged one that cuts both ways, threatening us with sun-stroke on the one hand and with frost-stroke on the other; but we have no atmosphere to speak of in New York and New England, except now and then during the dog-days, or the fitful and uncertain Indian Summer.
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