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That's only shamming," replied Sylvie, in a loud voice that Pierrette might hear. "She was well enough this morning, I can tell you." This last blow struck Pierrette to the earth; she went to bed weeping and praying to God to take her out of this world.
The captain came several times and shook me and swore I was shamming, but I only answered in a whisper and seemed as faint as a girl. All this time the Potomac was making good way, and was running fast down the coast of South America. The air was getting cool and fresh. "'I tink, Jans said one evening to me, 'dat dis not go on much much longer. De crew getting desperate.
"You are about well, I hear," she said, in a cold voice. I felt as if I had been shamming sickness. "I thought you were in remarkable health, your frame is so large." Adelaide was there, and answered for me. "You are delicate. It must be because you do not take care of yourself." "Wolf's Point to be avoided, perhaps!" "I have walked to Wolf's Point for fifteen years, night and day, many times."
''Tis your own fault, I had a mind to tell him, 'for not having looked after your business. Pounds and pounds of public money that Nanjivell must have drawn first and last for Reservist's pay, and nobody takin' the trouble to report on him." "I suppose," said Miss Oliver, "the man really is lame, and not shamming?" "The Lord knows, my dear.
But the gamekeeper understood vagrants! the young blackguard was only shamming! "Up wi' ye, ye deevil! or I s' gar ye," he said from between his teeth, lifting the whip for a second blow.
When the fit was genuine, as of course it sometimes was, the test had no particular reviving effect; but if the man were shamming, as he probably was in spite of the great consistency of his symptoms, the chances were that, with all his nerve and foreknowledge of what was in store for him, the sudden biting of the fiery liquid into his naked flesh would bring him to his feet dancing with pain and cursing and banning to the utmost extent of his elastic vocabulary.
As if she said, When miracles are worked for you, accept them. She lay awake, thinking what she should say to her mother when she got home. She would have to tell her that just at first she very nearly was expelled. Then her mother would believe in her unbelief and not think she was shamming. And she would have to explain about her unbelief. And about Pantheism.
At the sixth stroke the shrieks ceased, and the man's head dropped upon his breast. At this sight the second mate seemed somewhat startled, and looked up inquiringly at the captain. "Go on," said the latter, with an encouraging nod of the head; "go on and finish the dose; he's only shamming.
But the trainer only groaned, and let his head drop inert on his breast. More shouting was resorted to, but in vain. Cashel impatiently expressed an opinion that Mellish was shamming, and declared that he would not stand there to be fooled with all the evening. "If he was my pal 'stead o' yours," said the man with the broken nose, "I'd wake him up fast enough."
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