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"I don't believe I've had a trank in the past twenty years, Miss Haer. Even as a boy, I didn't particularly take to having my senses dulled with drug-induced pleasure." Some of her fury was abating, but she was still critical of the professional mercenary. Her eyes went up and down his uniform in scorn. "You seem to make pretenses of being cultivated, captain. Then why your chosen profession?"
Keepers, estate hands, and stablemen tumbled into their garments and hurried out, armed with guns and cudgels. An unhappy woman, tossing in the fitful dreams of drug-induced sleep, was awakened by the pistol shots and terrified by the noise of slamming doors and hurrying feet. She struggled out of bed and screamed for an attendant, but none came.
Maybe he thinks we're all drug-induced hallucinations. As far as he's concerned, he was leaning against the bathroom wall in order not to stain his shoes and the next moment he's peeing in our corner." Sigger tried to nod sympathetically. "Hasn't completed the interview yet," he continued.
He's the fightenest man in Breathitt when his blood's up." "All right, dear," said Miss Fletcher, with a soothing hand on the hot brow; "he shall do as he likes." During that long night the girl passed from one paroxysm of pain to another with brief intervals of drug-induced sleep.
It was not only the apparent uselessness of trying to stem the German tide that depressed him. There was something more than that. He felt like a man who wakes after a heavy, drug-induced slumber. The sudden cessation of the intense excitement of battles leaves the brain empty and weary. At such moments the hopelessness of the whole thing appalled and depressed him.
If Scientific Humanism means anything more than just words to you, you must possess a sense of responsibility. Don't you want to try and pay off a bit of this debt by helping others who are just as backward and disease-ridden today as great-grandfather Troglodyte ever was?" The hammering on the door was louder. This and the drug-induced buzzing in Brion's ear made thinking difficult.
It was as though the power of the drug-induced oblivion, which for a while was over-mastered by that other stronger power invoked by Jacob, had reasserted itself. Meyer watched her for awhile; then said to Mr. Clifford: "Don't be afraid and don't attempt to disturb her. She will wake naturally in the morning."
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