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Hi!" snickered the poor Little Girl through her hiccoughs. Feeling hopelessly crushed under two tons and a half of car, the Senior Surgeon closed his eyes for death. No man of his weight, he felt quite sure, could reasonably expect to survive many minutes longer the apoplectic, blood-red rage that pounded in his ear-drums.
Aunt Wess' flounced back in her seat, exasperated, out of sorts. "Well, my word," she murmured to herself, "I never saw such girls." Isabel Gretry's hiccoughs drove Aunt Wess' into "the fidgets." They "got on her nerves." Cressler, then Laura, then Jadwin and Cressler, and then, robed in billowing white, venerable, his prayer book in his hand, the bishop of the diocese himself.
Lolling in his chair, his arms hanging despondently by his sides, his head on his chest, the actor soliloquized a fragmentary soliloquy, interrupted by sighs and dramatic hiccoughs, overflowing with imprecations against the pitiless, selfish bourgeois, those monsters to whom the artist gives his flesh and blood for food and drink.
For, stationary though he was, he was really giving himself the benefit of a final rehearsal, and mentally performing steps of intricate and marvelous variety. "Stop moving your feet!" whispered Annette. "You'll step on my dress." "Is it the mazurka that's got the hiccoughs in the middle?" asked Sandy, anxiously. Mr. Meech paused and looked at them over his spectacles in plaintive reproach.
He put into his mouth the noses of all the patients in succession, and inhaled their breath, in order to attract the electricity to himself; and at the same time Bouvard clasped the tree, with the object of augmenting the fluid. The mason interrupted his hiccoughs; the beadle was agitated; the man with the contraction moved no more.
The next day, after he had done his best to fluster his son's wits over a sumptuous dinner, Jerome-Nicolas Sechard, after copious potations, began with a "Now for business," a remark so singularly misplaced between two hiccoughs, that David begged his parent to postpone serious matters until the morrow.
Finally he dropped off into an exhausted sleep, drawing deep, sobbing breaths and little hiccoughs of sorrow. Then Bunty was discovered asleep on the floor with his head under a seat, and had to be lifted into an easier position; and Baby, bolt upright in a corner, was nodding like a little pink-and-white daisy the sun has been too much for.
To-day we do not wish to believe that the author of "Madame Bovary" had two criminal suits. Had this book been written twenty years later, they would have found it too modest. But the human spirit, which does not slumber, and the organism that wishes to live, does not suffer excess of poison. Finally there came a moment for hiccoughs of disgust.
The speaker turned to the Young Doctor. "Pills, what d'you get when you change your diet sudden-like scurvy, or something awful, don't you?" "Hiccoughs." The Surgeon dragged his soul from the depths of a frayed Winning Post and looked up. His face brightened. "Why? Anyone here " "No, no, that's all right, my merry leech. Only Bunje wants to ask the What Ho's to dinner."
It is as I have said I am the king of drivers." Every time we just missed going to destruction, he would say, with tranquil happiness, "Enjoy it, gentlemen, it is very rare, it is very unusual it is given to few to ride with the king of drivers and observe, it is as I have said, I am he." He spoke in French, and punctuated with hiccoughs.
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