Misfortune does not paralyse him." M.Mornay's speech was of a kind which came in spurts, with pauses of thought between, and the pause now was longer than usual.
"Paralysis--certainly not," he said at last.

"Physical activity is one of the manifestations of mental, moral, and even physical shock and injury.

I've seen a man with a bullet in him run a half-mile--anywhere; I've seen a man ripped up by a crosscut-saw hold himself together, and walk--anywhere--till he dropped.

Physical and nervous activity is one of the forms which shattered force takes.

I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life.
He'd have to be; for a man who has as many irons in the fire as he has, must keep running from bellows to bellows when misfortune starts to damp him down." The Clerk of the Court sighed.