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To Denslow, Honoria, Dalton, and myself he offered nothing. Strange? Not at all. Was he not the guest, and had not I been presented to him by Honoria as her "friend?" a word of pregnant meaning to a Duke of Rosecouleur! To Adonaïs he gave a lock of hair of the great novelist, Dumas, in a locket of yellow tourmaline, a stone usually black. Lethal smiled at this. He felt relieved.
We must meet this threat: by making effective agreements to restrain nuclear and missile programs in North Korea, curbing the flow of lethal technology to Iran; preventing Iraq from threatening its neighbors; increasing our preparedness against chemical and biological attack; protecting our vital computer systems from hackers and criminals; and developing a system to defend against new missile threats while working to preserve our Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
Adonaïs appeared shocked at himself, and swallowed a minim of wine to cleanse his vocal apparatus from the stain of so coarse an illustration. "Do you hear those creatures?" whispered Dalton. A moment after, he was gone. I spoke to Lethal and Adonaïs.
I carried the former merely as a make-believe, to keep up my character as a hunter; for the same reason we took with us a brace of dogs. If it came to fighting I should have to put my trust in my machete, a long broad-bladed sword like a knife, formidable as a lethal weapon, yet chiefly used for clearing away brambles and cutting down trees. All went well at the beginning.
Ever hopeful of rabbit and fox, Billy urged on his cheerful waddling pack and the sea wind rang with the crack of his whip and the treble note of his whistle. Drina, lately inoculated with the virus of nature-study, carried a green gauze butterfly net, while Boots's pockets bulged with various lethal bottles and perforated tin boxes for the reception of caterpillars.
He had laid his hand to a repugnant business, and the burden of it was too heavy for him to bear. He felt the same gnawing anxiety, that is experienced by one whom doctors have sentenced to a lethal operation.
Easily understood, too, for given a tendency to sleeplessness and the excitement incident to a wedding, what more natural than that the excited bride should have sought relief in her customary sleeping draught. The mistake, the taking of a lethal dose, was, as all such mistakes are, inexplicable. Did her hand shake? Had she miscounted the number of tablets?
But to these, the little party of four gave no heed. Other men absorbed their interest sleeping men, now more and more thickly scattered all along the stockade. Save for a slight, saline tang to the air an odor by no means unpleasant nothing remained of the lethal gas. But its victims still lay there, prone, in every possible attitude of complete and overpowering abandonment.
Before he came, the weather had changed once more. It was now cold, and the cold had begun at once to tell upon the invalid. There are some natures to which cold, moral, spiritual, or physical, is lethal, and Lingard's was of the class.
Thropp gave him their names, their ages, habits, diseases, vices, mannerisms, idiosyncrasies. She recounted doings and sayings of infinite unimportance and uninterest. With the fatuous, blindfolded enthusiasm of an after-dinner speaker who rambles on and on and on while the victims yawn, groan, or fold their napkins and silently steal away, Mrs. Thropp poured out her lethal anecdotes.
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