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Consequently, Valentine came up to Noirtier, on leaving Madame de Saint-Meran, who in the midst of her grief had at last yielded to fatigue and fallen into a feverish sleep.
Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.
"But you've rather a feverish-looking color," he said, laying stress on the word "feverish."
A feverish anxiety attended her every action in that direction.
This often disordered my health, and made me sometimes heavy and dull, but more often restless and feverish. He never even gave me a meal of green food or a bran mash, which would have cooled me, for he was altogether as ignorant as he was conceited; and then, instead of exercise or change of food, I had to take horse balls and draughts; which, beside the nuisance of having them poured down my throat, used to make me feel ill and uncomfortable.
Nutty sat back and gave himself up to feverish thought.
I remember the time by the sudden brightness and clearness, the feverish strain and excitement of all my faculties which came with it.
"I am feverish: I hear the wind blowing: I will go out of doors and feel it."
The motion of a raft is the needful motion; it is gentle, and gliding, and smooth, and noiseless; it calms down all feverish activities, it soothes to sleep all nervous hurry and impatience; under its restful influence all the troubles and vexations and sorrows that harass the mind vanish away, and existence becomes a dream, a charm, a deep and tranquil ecstasy.
"Conseil," said I again, beginning with feverish hands to make preparations for my departure.
The detective was evidently inspired by the hope of obtaining the splendid reward which would be the prize of success, and awaited with a feverish impatience, easy to understand, the arrival of the steamer Mongolia.
With these facts before him he did not deem it necessary that he should become feverish over the possibilities of the ensuing twenty-four hours.