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After being deposited, in its usual place, in the pantry, it began to darken; first of all it became light blue, then deepened into an almost inky blackness, exhibiting curious zigzag lines; and, lastly, the whole mass began to putrefy and to emit a stench so overpowering that every one in the house retched, and the whole place had to be disinfected. This occurred day after day.
"Four ... five ... some there. Standish he got it with a shell no head ... not any more " He gave a sound like a giggle, and then his hand went hastily to his mouth as he retched dryly. Drew caught the other's shoulder, shaking him. "The others!" he demanded more loudly, trying to pierce the curtain of shock to Driscoll's thinking mind. "Four ... five ... some " Driscoll repeated.
Answered vaguely on this point, he announced that he had breakfast ready-waiting on the table; this, though Mr. Canning's telegraph never retched him till nea'bout eight o'clock. His tone indicated a pride of accomplishment not, he hoped, unjustified. Having removed the more superficial stains of travel, the two women sat at table in the half-dismantled dining-room.
We had not got a hundred yards on our passage, when he retched violently, and, as that is often followed by cramp, I urged him to put his hand on my shoulder that I might tow him back to the schooner. "Keep off, you villain, don't touch me. I'll drown ere I give in."
He clung by foot and hand magnetic pads, sick with nausea and vertigo. He had believed that by clinging to the outside of the hull he could escape detection and endure the flight back to Earth. In his sickness of body and mind the whole plan now looked like utter folly. He retched and closed his eyes and lay on the hull through the beginning of an eternity. He had no concept of time.
While above, the leather-headed birds called and swooped, fearful and angry for their disturbed nesting place. The Terran retched, coughed up water, and then sat up to look around. The spread of lagoon was bare. Thorvald must have rounded the south point of land and be very close to the reef passage, perhaps through it by now.
I feel sure he is sitting in the library, puffing away at his pipe, and feeling absolutely retched. He always does after he has been cross." Ronald's face hardened with youthful disapproval. "Why should you pity him? It's his own fault." "That makes it all the harder, for he has remorse to trouble him, as well as disappointment. You must not be hard on the pater, Ron.
"Master be hanged!" says I, turning round, more misrable than ever. I woodn't have moved that day for twenty thousand masters no, not for the Empror of Russia or the Pop of Room. Well, to cut this sad subjik short, many and many a voyitch have I sins had upon what Shakspur calls the "wasty dip," but never such a retched one as that from Dover to Balong, in the year Anna Domino 1818.
Then I grew sick, and retched to vomit, but could not, for I had nothing in my stomach to bring up.
On again, dragging one foot after the other; stopped for a long time before each shop window; halted, and watched every vehicle that drove by. I felt a scorching heat in my head, and something pulsated strangely in my temples. The water I had drunk disagreed with me fearfully, and I retched, stopping here and there to escape being noticed in the open street.
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