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Pride kept Quin from revealing the fact that he had no money to pay a doctor. Five weeks without work had completely exhausted his exchequer. "I'm used to these knockouts," he wheezed with assumed cheerfulness one Sunday night. "It's not half as bad as it sounds. I'll be up in a day or so." Dirks was not satisfied.
"'Happiness, old Dry-as-dust, as our good friend Rasselas puts it, 'is but a myth. I have ceased listening with credulity to the whispers of fancy or pursuing with eagerness the phantoms of hope. They're not for me. To live in the thick of life and take my knockouts or give them Reality! I'm up against it at last, real people, real thoughts, real trials, real problems I want them all.
"If an hour of that on a night like this won't take the nonsense out of me," he solemnly explained to a bright particular planet now low in the heavens, "I must be past help. But I'll be drawn and quartered if I'll give in. Haven't I had knockouts enough to be able to keep my head this time? Red Pepper Burns, 'Remember the Maine' Now, go to bed yourself!"
There were a few knockouts and a murder and a villain and a persecuted damsel, and an attempted suicide to provide thrills, but I couldn't make out what it was about even with the aid of the guide with me.
"Well, so long," he said, with a new dignity that curiously belied the informality of his farewell. An interval of silence followed his departure. "Well, he's got a crust!" said Tom, at last. My own feeling about Mr. Krebs had become more complicated; but I took my cue from Tom, who dealt with situations simply. "He'll come in for a few knockouts," he declared.
Oh, he looked so damned funny with his mus-tache burned off! way up high like that, over and over. Well, so she has to be held down till the Doc. jabs her arm full of knockouts.
Genevieve looked on from her peep-hole. She was not greatly perturbed. Her lover had been knocked out. In so far as disappointment was his, she shared it with him; but that was all. She even felt glad in a way. The Game had played him false, and he was more surely hers. She had heard of knockouts from him. It often took men some time to recover from the effects.
And it has a feature that appeals strongly to the man who has attained manhood and its numerous responsibilities the rarity of accidents. Bruises and knockouts one gets a-plenty, but those serious injuries which mar football, hockey and lacrosse are totally unknown. There is a belief that a game similar to water polo was played by the ancients, but no actual proof of it has been found.
"You say you were sick afterward?" "WAS I?" Kirk turned his eyes upon the speaker, mournfully. "My head isn't right yet." "You were drugged," said the woman. "By Jove!" He straightened up in his chair. "Knockouts!" "Exactly. Some one drugged you and bought a ticket " "Wait! I'm beginning to see. It was Locke. That's how I got his name. This is his ticket. Oh!
The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prize-ring, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labour and adulterated food.
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