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The diseases most fatal among the natives are cholera and smallpox, both of which are brought from China. Low malarial fever is brought on by sleeping on the ground or being chilled by remaining, without exercise, in wet clothes; and diarrhea is produced by drinking bad water or eating excessive quantities of fruit.
As I descended I felt her clinging to me; her hands were cold and clammy on my neck, as though she were chilled to the blood with terror. At last I reached the lowest step I touched the floor of the vault. I set my precious burden down. Releasing my clasp of her, I remained for a moment inactive, breathing heavily. She caught my arm she spoke in a hoarse whisper. "What place is this?
Nevill Tyson was a great man in his customer's county, and chilled a little by Sir Peter's manner, checked the flow of his reminiscences. "He was a wild young scamp another two inches round the waist, sir but I daresay he's settled down steady enough by this time." "No doubt he has," said Sir Peter, a little loftily. He was disgusted with Vance.
The siege was raised by a mixed expedition of European and Japanese troops sent from the coast. The satisfaction with which the news of rescue was received in Europe was chilled by stories that some portions of the expeditionary corps had been guilty of crimes only to be paralleled in the history of European wars in the seventeenth century.
She seemed suddenly to see her action as he would see it and the fact of his own connection with it, the fact that, to attain her end, she must trade on his name, and profit by a secret of his past, chilled her blood with shame. What a long way she had travelled since the day of their first talk together!
The misgivings were not unnatural, for he had been chilled by the girl's reception of him on the previous day, and her manner afterwards had, he felt, left something to be desired. Indeed, when she drove away with Mrs. Hastings, he had considered himself an injured man.
"Wait!" he called, suddenly moving forward. But almost at once he paused, chilled by the solitude of the room. "Eve!" he said, using her name unconsciously for the first time. But the corridor, as well as the room, was empty; he was too late. He stood irresolute; then he laughed shortly, turned, and passed back towards the fireplace.
Her heart beat violently she felt a strange dread, and a foreboding that chilled her very blood. "People often do that kind of thing fall in love and run away," continued Lady Blythe, placidly "when they are young and silly. It is quite a delightful sensation, of course, but it doesn't last. They don't know the world and they never calculate results. However, we had quite a good time together.
"Ducwitz, your Highness?" cried the chancellor, chilled. "Immediately!" "Father!" "Must I give an order twice?" "Your Highness, if you call Ducwitz I shall surrender my portfolio to you." The chancellor spoke without anger, quietly but firmly. "Do so. There are others to take up your work." The duke, for the moment, had thrown reason to the winds.
When he was gone, Barnes swam to the sandspit. There he wrung out his dripping clothes, and lay down in the hot sand to let the sun soak deep into his chilled veins. The Nest of the Mallard When the spring freshet went down, and the rushes sprang green all about the edges of the shallow, marshy lagoons, a pair of mallards took possession of a tiny, bushy island in the centre of the broadest pond.
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