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She had never forgotten. Back upon her mind flashed that vivid memory, and with it the memory of Max's eyes, green and intent, searching her face on the night that he had asked, "What do you know about the pain-killer?" Violet's voice brought her back. "Where is he, Allegro? Is he still here?" "No." Almost unconsciously Olga also spoke in a whisper. "He has gone back to Weir," she said.
If you ask it for pain-killer it will not give you a bonbon. The Blue Light scorns the labour-saving arts of modern pharmacy. It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.
Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but it was getting to have too little sentiment and too much distracting variety about it. So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.
"Are you sure she will be all right?" whispered Olga. "Quite sure," he said. She turned her attention to the bottle also. "What is that stuff?" she asked. He looked at her, and for an instant she saw his sardonic smile. "It's sudden death if you take enough of it," he said. "Yes, I know," said Olga. "It's what you call 'the pain-killer, isn't it?"
Behind the counter, however, instead of the array of bottles and glasses usually found in rooms bearing this name, the shelf was filled with patent medicines, chiefly various brands of pain-killer.
"Yes, yes, yes, I know just how you feel, Mrs. Harper, I know just exactly how you feel. No longer ago than yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house down. And God forgive me, I cracked Tom's head with my thimble, poor boy, poor dead boy. But he's out of all his troubles now.
The price is of comparatively little consequence, though an item; for it does not matter so much whether one pays fifty cents or a dollar a gallon, so long as the best oil is obtained; the pernicious feature of the practice lies in wrapping the oil in mystery, like a patent medicine, "Smith's Cylinder Oil" and "Jones's Patent Pain-Killer" being in one and the same category.
Talking "husband" to him was like rubbing pain-killer on a scalded pup, so I had something to keep me interested dull days. But one morning he comes to me, excited as a mouse at a cat show, and says he: "Ah, ha! what did I tell you? I've got one!" "I see you have," says I. "Want me to send for the doctor?" "Stop your foolishing," he says. "I mean I've got a millionaire. He's coming to-night, too.
"I guess you do," returned the commissioner, and helped himself to port. But when he was gone, I appealed to Nares on the same subject, for I was well aware we carried none of these provisions. "Well," drawled Nares, "there's sixty pounds of niggerhead on the quay, isn't there? and twenty pounds of salts; and I never travel without some pain-killer in my gripsack."
If I knew anyone in straits for a bit of ready cash, I was to send that afflicted person to him for relief. He liked to oblige people; and his tariff was fifteen per cent. per annum; but the security must be unexceptionable. I gave him some details of Alf's sickness, and asked whether he had any medicine at home Pain-killer, by preference.
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