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Kep consists of a ramshackle wooden pier that reaches seaward like a lean brown finger, an equally decrepit custom house, a tin-roofed bungalow which the French Government maintains for the use of those fever-stricken officials who need the tonic of sea air, a cluster of bamboo huts thatched with nipa nothing more. You will not find the place on any map; it is too small.
She behaves as if life was a whirlpool. She swims stupendously, tell her to float and give her a tonic." And he went out of the room shaking his head at the culprit on the couch. When the door had shut upon him, Maurice came up to the fire in silence and looked at Lily. She smiled at him rather hopelessly, and then suddenly she said: "Poor dear father! To ask you to make me take life so easily!"
Indeed, the sacrifice that Hadria had refused to make, was so common, so much a matter of course, that her refusal appeared startling and preposterous: scarcely less astonishing than if a neighbour at dinner, requesting one to pass the salt, had been met with a rude "I shan't." "A useful phrase at times, of the nature of a tonic, amidst our enervating civilisation," she reflected.
As the car rolled along the smooth highway leading to the flying field, McGee sank back in the none too comfortable cushions and drank deep of the tonic of early morning. "Some day!" he said. Larkin merely nodded the only reply needed when Spring is in the air. "It would be more fun to drive up to Paris," McGee offered. Larkin looked at him in surprise. "Where'd you get that idea?"
This work was published in May, 1893. 3. Miss Stisted's Life of Burton, pp. 409-414. 4. Translated from the Italian. 5. A tonic, a strengthening restorative. 6. The Baroness Paul de Ralli, who procured the above attestation from the priest, sent it in the first instance to Cardinal Vaughan together with the following letter: "TRIESTE, AUSTRIA, January 19, 1897.
He can lie down or he can stand. He's always in pain, it never stops. I learned that from the doctor I took him to see. But whenever you ask him how he feels you get the same answer always: 'Fine, thank you. He's a fighter, is John." "He looks it. I'd like to help that boy " "All right you can help him," Deborah said. "You'll find him quite a tonic." "A what?" "A tonic," she repeated.
He had sold his honour; he vowed it should not be in vain; 'it shall be no fault of mine if this miscarry, he repeated. And in his heart he wondered at himself. Living rage no doubt supported him; no doubt also, the sense of the last cast, of the ships burned, of all doors closed but one, which is so strong a tonic to the merely weak, and so deadly a depressant to the merely cowardly.
Besides, it had brought a Durian fruit to the banks of the stream and thrown it down, so that either taste or eccentricity must have induced it to prefer the shoots. Perhaps its digestion was out of order and it required a tonic. Anyhow, it continued to devour a good many young shoots while our travellers were peeping at it in mute surprise through the bushes.
He must marry: that admitted of no doubt. In the glow of his own hearth he must begin a new and more tonic life. Marry? But whom? A worn out heart can no longer be made to beat more swiftly at the sight of some slim maiden. The senses might yet be stirred, but that is all. Was he to haunt watering-places and pay court to mothers on the man-hunt in order to find favour in their daughters' eyes?
He would be shrewd enough to guess that the three festoons fringed with fiery words of somewhat similar pattern stood for 'Government of the People, For the People, By the People'; for it must obviously be that, unless it were 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. His shrewdness would perhaps be a little shaken if he knew that the triad stood for 'Tang Tonic To-day; Tang Tonic To-morrow; Tang Tonic All the Time. He will soon identify a restless ribbon of red lettering, red hot and rebellious, as the saying, 'Give me liberty or give me death. He will fail to identify it as the equally famous saying, 'Skyoline Has Gout Beaten to a Frazzle. Therefore it was that I desired the peasant to walk down that grove of fiery trees, under all that golden foliage, and fruits like monstrous jewels, as innocent as Adam before the Fall.
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