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She was very careful in tasting it, and she immediately rinsed her mouth with water, before she tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket. By and by Elettra came back and brought her the jet and the medicine, returning her the change without any remark. Matilde thanked her, and laid the package of twenty doses upon her dressing-table, before the mirror.
It seems almost like having a hospital here now, for we have another patient added to our sick list. Joe, the cook, is ill, and thinks he will die, though the doctor smiles quizzically as she doses him, thinking as she does so that a few days in bed and away from the saloons will be as beneficial as her prescriptions.
Bousefield says that of course he wanted things that were suggestive and clever, things that he could point to with pride. But he contends that Ray didn't allow for human weakness. He gave everything in too stiff doses." Sensibly, I fear, to my neighbour I winced at her words; I felt a prick that made me meditate. Then I said: "Is that, by chance, the way he gave me?" Mrs.
She is just the kind soul to be up and out to fetch us milk for an early first breakfast; but she may have overslept herself. Chillon smiled. 'You were right, Janet', about not going to bed last night; we might have missed the morning. 'I hate sleep: I hate anything that robs me of my will, she replied. 'You'd be glad of your doses of sleep if you had to work and study.
And then when Christmas came around Adelaide filled the grand purpose of her life she went to Thorpe Castle. Her behavior there might have been taken as a model. She was quite sure of Marion's affection, so she devoted herself entirely to Lady Ridsdale; she waited upon her, she solicited her advice, she administered to her the most delicate doses of flattery.
He suffered terribly, and nothing but opium in great doses could relieve his pain. His wound was mortal, and three days later he died. Long after, Helene admitted that she still loved Lassalle, and believed that he would win the duel; but after the tragedy, the tenderness and patience of Racowitza won her heart. She married him, but within a year he died of consumption.
We were afraid to use them in sufficient doses. Often their injection would not be consented to until the case had become hopeless.
Give me salts, and ye'll have to find a bed for me here, and take care of me for a few days." "Quinine is about your size," replied the steward, reaching for a five-pound can of the stuff. "That'll kill me, entirely!" "Four ten-grain doses never killed any man," insisted the steward. "I won't take it!" "Oh, yes, you will, Kelly. This is the Army, and discipline is the rule.
In two cases he had no respite of agony from the moment he dropped till he resumed it. He had first learned its seductions, as happens with the vast majority of Anglo-Saxon opium-eaters, through a medical prescription. An attack of inflamed cornea was treated with caustic applications, and the pain assuaged by internal doses of M'Munn's Elixir.
In short, she believed that society came about for the purpose of giving its members a long lifetime of small doses of savagery instead of a few episodes of gluttonous devouring that could cause one to be murdered rather easily. She wasn't sure of the specifics. She hadn't thought it worthy of her time to think them out in an obscure philosophical treatise.
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