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Will you, father?" she continued inexorably, looking at him. "Yes, yes!" said Ellen desperately, kissing her lips to make her stop talking. The child turned over contentedly, and in another moment she was asleep. "She's not hot now," whispered Pelle. "I think the fever's gone." His face was very grave.
Side by side on a seat that ran along the wall they sat at a table for two and the dinner was ordered. "Ruin yourself if you want to," said the girl as her host included celery and olives in the menu. "Go on and order prunes, too, for all I care. I'm reckless. Maybe I'll never have another dinner, the way this fever's coming on. Feel my hand."
"And 'Lave that, you omadhawn, sez Tishy, wid the look of a divil on her, what foolery are you at now? 'You thievin' miscreant, sez I to her, 'it's shankin' off to the pólis I'll be, and layin' a heavy charge agin you for robbin' and stealin', and you after lavin' the innicent child there and th' ould man to starve widout a penny to their names, sez I. 'Faugh! sez she, 'for that matter the fever's liker to have took her off agin now wid no throuble to be starvin', and maybe a good job too for iverybody. And 'Be this and be that, sez I, 'if I thought there was e'er a fear of it, 'tis wringin' your ugly neck round I'd be this instiant. 'Let go of that bag, sez she, sweepin' up some of the shillin's that was spilt.
I replied, and was about to ask some questions relative to where, and under whose protection I then was, when my grave-looking friend, giving a pirouette upon one leg, sent his hat flying into the air, and cried out in a voice that not even my memory could fail to recognize, "By the rock of Cashel he's cured! he's cured! the fever's over!
Well, captain, come right into my chimbeque, and chop." "I'll have some quinine with you, and a cocktail. Chop doesn't tempt me just now. I've a dose of fever on hand." "Got to expect that here, anyway," said the missionary. "I haven't had fever for three days now, but I'm due for another dose to-morrow afternoon. Fever's quite regular with me.
I went over to Mary, and says I, 'You go in the other room and lie down, Mary, the fever's broke, and Harvey's goin' to git well. She stared at me like she couldn't take in what I was sayin'. Then her face begun to work like a person's in a convulsion, and she jumped up and rushed out o' the room, and the next minute she give a cry that I can hear yet.
Injustice and oppression have almost broke my heart, and ague and fever's taken the strength out o' my limbs, and a knock I got in the States three years ago has nigh crippled me.
One of the greatest blessings ever discovered for a traveller. It is quinine, Nat, fever's deadliest enemy. Down with it at once." The stuff was intensely bitter, but my mouth was so hot and parched, and the water with it so cool and pleasant, that I quite enjoyed it, and drew a deep breath. "There, now, lie down again, my boy, and be off to sleep.
In this last volume I have done better still for from the end of Le Fever's episode, to the beginning of my uncle Toby's campaigns, I have scarce stepped a yard out of my way. This right line, the path-way for Christians to walk in! say divines The emblem of moral rectitude! says Cicero
And if thy reading secures thee not serenity, what profits it? "Nay, but it doth secure it," quoth he, "and that is why I repine at being deprived of it." And what serenity is this that lies at the mercy of every passer-by? I say not at the mercy of the Emperor or Emperor's favorite, but such as trembles at a raven's croak and piper's din, a fever's touch or a thousand things of like sort!
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