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Tartarin of Tarascon, nearly overcome, dwelt a moment scanning the fellow-passengers, comically shaken by the jolts, and dancing before him like the shadows in galanty-shows, till his eyes grew cloudy and his mind befogged, and only vaguely he heard the wheels grind and the sides of the conveyance squeak complainingly.
Alcohol was good for a man who over-worked. I noted its effect on my small crew, when, breaking their backs and hearts at heaving up anchor in forty fathoms, they knocked off gasping and trembling at the end of half an hour and had new life put into them by stiff jolts of rum. They caught their breaths, wiped their mouths, and went to it again with a will.
The crude wooden wheels rumbled and creaked and jarred along the deep-rutted road, jouncing the occupants of the vehicle from side to side with unseemly playfulness. Back in the bed of the wagon, under a gaily coloured Indian blanket, lay the outstretched body of Jasper Suggs, seemingly alive and responsive to the jolts and twists and turns of the road.
The language of passion, how hard it is to feign, to write it! how harder than all, to keep the tone, serious, or whatever it may be, with which we begin, so that no expressions occur to break it, lapses of thought or speech, that are like sudden stumbles or uneasy jolts!
A few days of this beverage within, and of wind-drifted alkali invading every pore of the body without, often serve to cover the miserable passenger with an erysipelatous eruption which presently becomes confluent and irritates him to madness. Meanwhile he jolts through alkali-ruts, unable to sleep for six days and nights together, until frenzy sets in, or actual delirium comes to his relief.
"Confound such a road!" growled the younger man, as the stage bounced him about like a rubber ball. "For my part I wish I had remained at home, instead of coming out into this outlandish region. It is perfectly awful." "Y-y-y-e-s!" chattered the elder between the jolts and jerks "it is not what it should be, that's true. But have patience; ere long we will reach our destination, and "
For a minute or two the shocks became more and more violent flashing horizontal thrusts mixed with a few twists and battering, explosive, upheaving jolts, as if Nature were wrecking her Yosemite temple, and getting ready to build a still better one. I was now convinced before a single boulder had fallen that earthquakes were the talus-makers and positive proof soon came.
From Holyhead, across the island of Anglesea, there was no made road, but only a miserable track, circuitous and craggy, full of terrible jolts, round bogs and over rocks, for a distance of twenty-four miles. Having reached the Menai Strait, the passengers had again to take to an open ferry-boat before they could gain the mainland.
There was no doubting the truth of his story, and I held out my hand. "You're a good man, Jed," I said heartily, "and so long as we are both alive, a few hard jolts won't hurt us. Let's see if the horses are in any condition for service." A single glance told the story.
And oh, aunty, I do see how blind I was to my destiny, and how kind you were to me in my blindness you who had led the fuller life as I shall lead it at Wilbur's side. "'You beat it to your room, I orders her, very savage and disorganized. For I had stood about all the jolts in one day that God had meant me to.
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