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Updated: June 22, 2025
Vitus myself, because if Clara J. ever gets wise that I've been speculating again after faithfully promising her to cut out all the guessing contests, she's liable to say something unkind. I simply must get that money back, Bunch, before she knows I lost it, and Signor Petroskinski is the name of our paying teller.
"Hopeless!" she mourned. "Incurable! Wanted: a miracle of St. Vitus. Do stop nibbling your hat, and sit down." "I don't think it's as bad as it was," he murmured, obeying. "One gets accustomed to you." "One gets accustomed to anything in time, even the eccentricities of one's friends." "Do you think I'm eccentric?" "Do I think Have you ever known any one who didn't think you eccentric?"
Vitus dance to become more coated than the one that is confined to perpetual isolation. Like most iconoclasts he was of humble birth, and had no foundation upon which to rest the cornerstone of his castle, which was becoming too heavy for his brain to support much longer. His strong suit was his itinerate susceptibility; but his main anchorage was his better five-fifths.
For a time, as they walked, she had many questions to put about the tree and bird life surrounding them. In the midst of it he asked her: "Do you ever get restless?" "I haven't, here. I'm getting rested." "And at home I suppose you're too busy." "Being busy is no preventive. Somebody has said that St. Vitus is the patron saint of New York society."
But for Pitt, there had been no Wolfe, no Amherst; Duke Ferdinand had been the Royal Highness of Cumberland, and all things going round him in St. Vitus, at their old rate. This man is a King, for the time being, King really of the Friedrich type; and rules, Friedrich himself not more despotically, where need is.
It was the word brought back by these free-lances of the sea that induced Peter the Great to send Vitus Bering on a voyage of discovery to the west coast of America; and when the castaways of Bering's wreck returned with a new fur that was neither beaver nor otter, but larger than either and of a finer sheen than sable, selling the pelts to Chinese merchants for what would be from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars each in modern money, the effect was the same as the discovery of a gold mine.
When the castaway crew of Vitus Bering looked about for means to exist on the barren islands where they were wrecked, they found the kelp beds and seaweed fields of the North Pacific literally alive with a little animal, which the Russians called "the sea-beaver."
The nerves and their centres lacked nourishment. There was more waste than repair, no margin for growth. St. Vitus' dance was a warning not to be neglected, and the schoolmaster resigned to the doctor. A long vacation enabled the system to retrace its steps, and recover force for evolution. Then the school resumed its sway, and physiological laws were again defied.
They divided them into separate parties, to each of which they appointed responsible superintendents to protect them from harm and perhaps also to restrain their turbulence. They were thus conducted on foot and in carriages to the chapels of St. Vitus, near Zabern and Rotestein, where priests were in attendance to work upon their misguided minds by masses and other religious ceremonies.
To Thyrsis it seemed as if a whole civilization, with all its resources of science and art its music and painting and costumes, its poets and composers, its actors, singers, orchestra, and audience had all at once fallen victims to an attack of St. Vitus' dance.
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