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In the midst of this steam-heated, poisonous air the family hover around their heap of rocks, and sweat for days at a time, in memory of their departed friends. When the mourning days are over, they heap up into a cairn beside the sweat-lodge the stones that have been used, as a monument to their dead.
He knew that all depended upon his absolute immobility; yet something in his brain was prompting him prompting him to gather the witch to his breast; to return that poisonous, that vampirish kiss, and then to crush out life from the small lithe body. Sternly he fought down these strange promptings, which he knew to emanate hypnotically from the brain of the creature bending over him.
Then mixing with honey the juice of some poisonous root he drank it and lay down on his bed. Golden anklets tinkled in the passage outside the door, and a subtle perfume came into the room with the breeze. The poet, with his eyes shut, said; "My lady, have you taken pity upon your servant at last and come to see him?" The answer came in a sweet voice "My poet, I have come."
It must have been some poisonous plant," said she faintly. "This giddiness and numbness increase." Then she held out her hands tremulously. "Hold me," she said. "The earth seems slipping away from me. Oh, Victor, what if it should be fatal?" "Do not imagine such a thing," he said. "It is impossible! The plant has probably some narcotic property which affects you temporarily.
He had better not have taken her away from Giles, for he did not know what to feed her with, and had given her among the greens he had gathered a herb called hemlock, which is poisonous and will kill whatever eats of it; and it had killed poor Snowball. The coachman told Charles so when he saw how swollen she was, and Charles cried the more.
Someone called for the keys of the ammunition chambers, and then began a search for the ordnance officer in the passages filled with the poisonous fumes of the Shimose-powder. But it was all in vain, for he lay on the front bridge torn into an unrecognizable mass by the enemy's shells.
They carefully restrict themselves to the making of the poisonous product of their village, and have nothing to do with the consumption thereof: hence nature has a fair chance with them, and they are a healthy and energetic race.
They believe also, when a person dies, that his death is caused by the agency of an evil spirit secured by some enemy; and, having settled who that person is, will follow his steps till they find an opportunity of assassinating him. They are acquainted with several poisonous plants, to which they sometimes resort to destroy those whom they consider their enemies.
Then there ensues such a fight as the city witnessed only last May at the burning of a Chambers Street paper-warehouse. It was fought out deep underground, with fire and flood, freezing cold and poisonous gases, leagued against Chief Bonner's forces. Next door was a cold-storage house, whence the cold.
Should any power for evil be allowed to exist upon the earth if mortal man had strength to stamp it out? Suppose that was a poisonous snake out there, and not a man. What was out there was worse than any snake. Gordon reasoned as the first man in Eden may have reasoned; and he did not know whether his reasoning were right or wrong. Meantime, the danger increased every moment.
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