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| I had felt her, it is true, trembling for nights and days together under my feet, but it was with the high-strung tenseness of her faithful courage. I've got your name, an' here's your number--I got that, too: HIGH-STRUNG BUT REASONABLE. I really believe that a finely- organized, high-strung man would suffer twice and thrice as much as they from a like injury. |
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high-strung - being in a tense state