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She approached the bed to do something to the pillow Hilda had an impulse to push her away with the cry, "It is not time yet Atropos!" "I must go now for an hour or so," the Sister went on. "That poor creature in Number Six needs me; they daren't give her any more morphia.
Possibly she would not have behaved as she did in church, but that her nervous being was a very sponge for morphia. Born to be a strong woman, she was a slave to her impulses, and, one of the weakest of her kind, went into a rage at the least show of opposition. Scarcely had Mr.
I see a kitchen where a soldier was plucking a white fowl... I see an Algerian non-commissioned officer pacing the corridor.... Towards noon, the head doctor arrived followed by my comrades, and our vehicles. With him I made the round of the buildings again while they were unpacking our stores. I had got hold of a syringe, while waiting for a knife, and I set to work distributing morphia.
By the Living Tinker, I should have thought that this siege life would have put iron into a man's blood instead of of Crème de Menthe. Are you takin' those dashed morphia tabloids of Taggart's for bad-water collywobbles again? Yes? I thought as much. Chuck 'em to the aasvogels; stick to your work you can't complain of its lackin' interest or variety and let this girl alone.
The powerful stimulant enabled him to repeat the experiences of the previous day, and for two or three weeks he lived in the fatal but fascinating opium paradise, gradually increasing the amount of morphia that his system, dulled by habit, demanded. In the meantime, by the lavish use of quinine he gradually banished his neuralgia with its attendant pain.
"I muttered some banal words of comfort, and continued to tie him up though God knows it was a pretty hopeless task. I hadn't even any morphia I could give him to make things better. "Suddenly he raised his arm and fumbled about in search of something. "'What do you want? I asked. "'Where the deuce is my eyeglass? And the drawl seemed to catch horribly in his throat.
But he would be doing very bad service if he were to go among the doctors and nurses on the field and tell them not to give drugs, as they give morphia in a hospital. But it is the whole hypothesis of war, it is its very nature and first principle, that the man in the trench is almost as much a suffering and abnormal person as the man in the hospital.
That little Welshman, for instance, lying on a ledge of rock above our Brigade Headquarters with a great gaping shrapnel wound in his abdomen imploring the Medical Officer in the Gaelic tongue to "put him out," and how he died, with a morphia tablet in his mouth, singing at the top of his high-pitched voice "When the midnight chu-chu leaves for Alabam! I'll be right there!
She had relinquished his hand, but he stretched it out again and touched her bent head. "There's no time left," he said, impatiently, "to to fence in. Look here! I can't stand this pain many minutes more." He moved with a stifled groan. "They'll give me morphia it's the only thing. But I want you to know. I was engaged to Alicia Drake after we broke it off.
The strength of the morphia was not yet quite spent, and he fell asleep in the middle of his train of thought, as had happened while he was speaking to the Mother in the early morning.
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