Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
As for the passengers, the saintly lot are bad enough. Yet it's only the food and the cabins and the attendance they grumble about. I'm shunted off the worldly lot onto them in future. But at their worst, they'll be a rest-cure! and Lark has the decency not to reduce my screw. It's the worldly lot that's going to make you curse the day you were born."
This week, for instance, our battalion has been undergoing a sort of rest-cure a few miles from the hottest part of the firing line. In the afternoon we sleep, in all degrees of déshabille, under the trees in an orchard. In the evening we play football, or bathe in the canal, or lie on our backs on the grass, watching our aeroplanes buzzing home to roost, attended by German shrapnel.
Hell's got perfectly good grounds for a libel suit against William Tecumseh for what he up and said about it and war, all in the same breath." Lanyard smiled faintly, but Dressler pondered this obscure reference with patent distress. Crane champed his cigar reflectively. "What's more to our purpose," he said presently: "I shouldn't be surprised if this meant the wind-up of our rest-cure here.
Of late he had lost two of his chief favourites. One, a delicious creature, with a head of auburn hair and a real talent for writing verse, had left Oxford suddenly to make a marriage so foolish that he really could not forgive her or put up with her intolerable husband; and the other, a muse, with the brow of one and the slenderest hand and foot, whom he and others were hopefully piloting towards a second class at least possibly a first in the Honour Classical School, had broken down in health, so that her mother and a fussy doctor had hurried her away to a rest-cure in Switzerland, and thereby slit her academic life and all her chances of fame.
"He hadn't sent for me yet, and I'd made up my mind, by that time, that he meant not to. And I was too tired just then to come down here and try for anything else. I went on the road for a sort of rest-cure." He sat for a good while after that in a reflective silence. And, at the end of it, deliberately introduced a new and entirely harmless topic of conversation. She knew why he did that.
"Something has to be done," he said at last, and he strongly advised that she be sent to a hospital where she would be the object of benevolent despotism. She constantly complained of her oversensitive hearing, and had certainly developed all the arts of the invalid. She made no objection to the proposed plan. She did not know what was in store for her, outside of the mentioned "rest-cure."
"It is part of the reform. I wish to give my people a settled industry. There is no idea of personal gain." "I see. Well, I don't know about that yet. I haven't looked into the matter; I must to-morrow that is, no, I won't. You know," with a movement of good-tempered impatience "I've been sent here on a rest-cure, and I'm not to bother about anything. Please remind me now and again.
"Takin' the rest-cure, kid?" asked a passing sailor as he shied a stick at Sandy's shins. Sandy stretched himself and smiled up at the sailor. It was a smile that waited for an answer and usually got it a smile so brimming over with good-fellowship and confidence that it made a lover of a friend and a friend of an enemy.
It was to this village the most novel part of the scheme that I had come that afternoon, and here some thirty or forty correspondents were living, writing past adventures, setting forth on new ones, or merely inviting their souls for the moment under a regime which combined the functions of tourists' bureau, rest-cure, and a sort of military club.
But then, the 'rest-cure' takes at least a month. And certainly, my cure is the more pleasant of the two. My patient does not have to cease from life. He is not undressed and tucked into bed and forbidden to stir hand or foot during his whole term. Nor, above all, is he condemned to the loathsome necessity of eating so much food as to make him dread the sight of food.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking