Oh! don't speak to me--I shall be better presently.' And after exhibiting every symptom of slow suffocation in all its stages, and drinking about a tea-spoonful of water from a full tumbler, and spilling the remainder, Mrs Nickleby WAS better, and remarked, with a feeble smile, that she was very foolish, she knew.
'It's a weakness in our family,' said Mrs Nickleby, 'so, of course, I can't be blamed for it.

Your grandmama, Kate, was exactly the same--precisely.

The least excitement, the slightest surprise--she fainted away directly.

I have heard her say, often and often, that when she was a young lady, and before she was married, she was turning a corner into Oxford Street one day, when she ran against her own hairdresser, who, it seems, was escaping from a bear;--the mere suddenness of the encounter made her faint away directly.

Wait, though,' added Mrs Nickleby, pausing to consider.