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His posture was straight but not rigid, as if he didn’t know how to slouch, only how to take up space.
Legendary
Stephanie Garber
Getting well is sometimes more tiresome than being ill and completely in bed. The routine one has got used to as an invalid disappears, and instead there seems to be endless sitting uncomfortably in chairs, waiting for it to be time to go to bed again, after longing from the bed to be up in the chair: endless exhaustion following unwonted exercise: and a longing to be completely one thing or the other, well or ill, instead of someone hovering between the two, conscious all the time of the possible effect of every action, yet impelled to try to be active.
Marianne Dreams
Catherine Storr
She was afraid to touch him for fear of causing him still greater discomfort, but perhaps there was more hurt in her not doing so.
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