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Sir Henry took it gently in his, and found it cold and clammy. "It is nearly all over now, Sir Henry," said the old man. "I hope not," said the visitor, with the tone usual on such occasions. "You may rally yet, Mr. Bertram." "Rally!" And there was something in the old man's voice that faintly recalled the bitter railing sound of other days. "No; I don't suppose I shall ever rally much more."
The air so clammy and chill, and not an insect in an acre of it! No, it was no good; my courage broke down, and one cold, stormy night I took wing, flying well inland on account of the strong easterly gales.
And so the Efficient Baxter crawled on; and as he crawled his hand, advancing cautiously, fell on something something that was not alive; something clammy and ice-cold, the touch of which filled him with a nameless horror. To say that Baxter's heart stood still would be physiologically inexact. The heart does not stand still. Whatever the emotions of its owner, it goes on beating.
The cigarette went cold and clammy in his fingers, and in his eyes was that sadness of which José had spoken; and something else besides. They would fight, those two, and fight to kill. Since the world was first peopled, men had fought as they would fight for love; for the possession of a pretty thing warm, capricious, endearing, with possibly a heart and a soul beneath; possibly.
Mosses and ferns, revived by the superabundance of moisture had sprung up on the decaying trunks and branches of the uprooted trees, pushing their feathery leaflets through the blanket of creepers and forming a dense, soggy layer cold and clammy to the touch and treacherous underfoot.
What is it? Clammy hands reaching out from the grave to clutch at warm young flesh and pollute it? Not while there are living hands to beat them off!" He began to get vehement and warm. There was to be a chapter on heredity in that book of his, one day. "It's a bogy. It goes down before environment as the dark before the dawn.
There the bush is fetid, and the clammy air gives a sense of deadly depression; here the atmosphere is pure, the land is open, and there is enjoyment in the mere sense of life. The effete matter in the blood and the fatty degeneration of the muscles, the results of inactivity, imperfect respiration, and F. Po, were soon consumed by the pure oxygen of the highland air.
Perlmutter," he said at length "my partner." "How do you do, sir?" the visitor replied as he seized Morris's clammy palm in a warm embrace. "Take a seat," Morris murmured, dragging forth a chair; and the stranger sat down deliberately. "Well, sir," Abe asked, "what could we do for you?" "Mr.
"God, a man needs something like this to brace him up after such a night!" he declared. He took a second drink from the bottle, and a third. In the act of pouring a fourth he heard a sound at the back door, and with a gulp of terror he remembered that he had again forgotten to lock it. Sanderson undoubtedly was returning! Again Maison's body became clammy with a cold sweat.
But here we call for help upon another of the features of disease the hand. If, instead of being cool, and elastic, this is either dry and hot, or clammy and damp, and feels as if you were grasping a handful of bones and nerves, and the finger-tips are clubbed and the nails curved like claws, then you have a strong prima facie case.
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