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He also asked us as to the amount of sickness among the prisoners, the condition of the country, and so on. Dismissed, we made a dash down past Big Ben and the Parliament Buildings for the Canadian Pay and Record Office, where at Millbank it overlooked the Thames. A sergeant took our names and after a time took us, too, in to the paymaster.
Men say that the people of London are very confident that they can keep the sickness away from entering their walls, by maintaining a careful guard upon the city gates. At Windsor, I left the town in a mighty fear, folks looking already askance at each other, as if afraid they were smitten with the deadly disease.
I have inherited my father's pride, and it would be odious to me if my brothers and sisters went about in rags, and people thought we were as poor and helpless as we really are. What is most horrible to me is sickness in the house, for that increases the anxiety I always feel and swallows up my last coin; the children must not perish for want of it.
In that great crisis the deep despair of ages was forgotten. It might be that the power which had overcome the world could also cure its ancient sickness. Little as men could see into the issues of the future, the meaning of the present was beyond mistake.
"Noble Lord Marquis," replied the Englishman bluntly, "I can neither use many words, nor do I delight in listening to them; moreover, I am much more ready to believe what my eyes have seen than what my ears have heard. I am satisfied that this heathen can cure the sickness of King Richard, and I believe and trust he will labour to do so. Time is precious.
The weak received a cup of tea and a piece of bread. The demand was sometimes great, especially when epidemics befell them. But some rather fled from us as the cause of their sickness, and sought refuge from our presence in remotest corners, or rushed off at our approach and concealed themselves in the bush.
Had Father Urban fallen a victim to yon hooting mob last eve, a deadly blow would have been dealt to the faith of this land." "And is his sickness very sore? has he any grievous hurt?" "He was sore knocked about and bruised ere he first wrenched himself from the officer of the law who sprang upon him with an order of arrest.
"My return to this place is sooner than I expected," he wrote to Hamilton, "owing to the uninterruptedness of my journey by sickness, from bad weather, or accidents of any kind whatsoever," for which he had made an allowance of eight days. Washington returned to Philadelphia on the sixth of July.
The captain looked round with the sickness of deadly fear in his eyes. "Don't make us go up there like this," he begged hoarsely. "For God's sake, don't do that!" Payne paused with a hand on the flywheel. The dread in the captain's eyes was obviously genuine. "Don't make us take you up there, mister," he repeated. "You wouldn't if you knew." "Knew what?" "We can't bring any one up there."
The old fellow was famous for his knowledge of herbs, which he was wont to administer to the Indians in case of sickness; indeed it was not an uncommon thing for the white people to consult "Doctor Tomer" as to their ailments.
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