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Her pallor changed into burning red, she trembled and swayed so much that she had to rest her hand on the table in order to support herself. It was as though she were standing at the bar. But her present danger helped her to regain her self-command; all at once she was no longer at a loss for a lie. "There were twelve powders in it," she asserted boldly. "I've used the half more than the half."
That girl sits up as if she was Queen Elizabeth, and expects people to wallow on the ground before her until they get near enough for her to give 'em a good kick with her old patched shoes oh, she'd do THAT, all right! and then she powders up and goes out to mash BIBBS SHERIDAN!" "Look here," said Roscoe, heavily; "I don't care about that one way or another.
"Know you're interested in that Narnay youngster. I've just come from there. I've got to go half way to Bristol to set a feller's leg. They telephoned me. Before I could get there and back that Narnay baby is going to be out of the reach of all my pills and powders." He did not say it harshly; it was Dr. Poole's way to be brusk. "Oh, Doctor! Will it surely die?"
A dram will give to a pint of water the consistence of a syrup, which a whole ounce of gum Arabic is scarce sufficient to do. Hence its use for forming troches, and the like purposes, in preference to the other gums. It is used in an officinal powder, and is an ingredient in the compound powders of ceruss and amber. Lewis's Mat. Med. ATROPA Belladonna.
I burst out laughing at some paradox about sympathetic powders, which he enounced as if it were a recognized truth. "Pray tell me," said I, "who was your master in physics; for a cleverer pupil never had a more crack-brained teacher." "No," he answered, with his merry laugh, "it is not the teacher's fault. I am a mere parrot; just cry out a few scraps of learning picked up here and there.
Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? But she could not grieve her mother, especially as her mother considered herself to blame. "May I trouble you to sit down, princess?" the celebrated doctor said to her. He sat down with a smile, facing her, felt her pulse, and again began asking her tiresome questions. She answered him, and all at once got up, furious.
Then he gave the mother in marriage to the Chief Chamberlain, and transferred her to his house with the child, which they reared on the laps of the slave girls, and fed with milk and dosed with powders. Now all this occurred whilst the brother, Zau al-Makan, still tarried with the Fireman at Damascus.
One of her mother's phrases came into her head: 'a lick and a promise. And then another: "If you want to leave dirt, leave it where everybody can see it, not in the corners." She peeped behind the screen, and all the horrible welter of a cabinet de toilette met her gaze: a repulsive medley of foul waters, stained vessels and cloths, brushes, sponges, powders, and pastes.
"Finally," continued the secretary, "Kartinkin also confessed to giving Maslova the powders to put the merchant to sleep. On the second examination, however, he denied having either stolen the money, or given Maslova the powders, but charged Maslova with both.
The Doctor was gratified until, on examination, it appeared that to save trouble, and because his memory was poor, Concho had taken all the powders in one dose. The Doctor shrugged his shoulders and altered his practice. "Well," said Dr. Guild, as Concho sank down exhaustedly in one of the Doctor's two chairs, "what now?
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