It is rather that far nobler constitution, which the keenness of the nervous susceptibility renders delicate but elastic,--as quick to recover as it is to suffer." "Thank you, thank you, Dr.Fenwick, for what you say.

You take a load from my heart; for Mr.Vigors, I know, thinks Lilian consumptive, and Mrs.Poyntz has rather frightened me at times by hints to the same effect.

But when you speak of nervous susceptibility, I do not quite understand you.

My daughter is not what is commonly called nervous.

Her temper is singularly even." "But if not excitable, should you also say that she is not impressionable?
The things which do not disturb her temper may, perhaps, deject her spirits.