avaler

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then, significantly, and with a touch of impatience, "Allez," she added, "et dites bien a votre bonhomme entendez-vous? qu'il faut avaler la pilule." After such a warning there was nothing for it but to sign and pay. Mr. Gould had swallowed the pill, and it was as though it had been compounded of some subtle poison that acted directly on his brain.

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard