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"'Oh, said Eunice, 'we must send for some oil and vinegar! This lettuce is very nice. "'Oil and vinegar? exclaimed Abel. "'Why, yes, said she, innocently: 'they are both vegetable substances. "Abel at first looked rather foolish, but quickly recovering himself, said "'All vegetable substances are not proper for food: you would not taste the poison-oak, or sit under the upas-tree of Java.
Who of the young, unstricken by sorrow, ever associates death with himself or with those he loves, till the Arch Reaper comes some day and cuts down and garners his precious treasure? John had heard of death, but he had heard of it just as he had heard of the poisonous Upas-tree, growing on some distant ocean island, or of an evil star, under whose baleful influence he might never fall.
Before quitting Java, I must say a word about the far-famed upas-tree. Such a tree certainly exists on the island; but the tales that are told of its poisoning the air for hundreds of yards round, so that birds dare not approach it, that vegetation is destroyed beneath its branches, and that man cannot come near it with impunity, are perfectly ridiculous.
He won't gather honey: he will just live, indolently drawling through an existence diversified by feast and fast days; and all his social vices flourish in shelter of this seignorial system this this upas-tree which England is pledged to perpetuate: and Mr. Holt struck his hand violently on the gunwale of the boat, awakening a responsive grin of triumph from Andy.
To prove their absurdity, a friend of mine climbed up a upas-tree, and passed two hours in its branches, where he took his lunch and smoked a cigar. The tree, however, does contain poison, and the natives extract the sap, with which they rub their spear and kriss blades: wounds inflicted with blades thus anointed, are mortal.
It would be better to have a upas-tree in your neighborhood. Of all disagreeable men, a man with his tendencies is the most disagreeable. The bitterest and longest-lasting east-wind acts less perniciously on body and soul than does the society of Mr. Snarling. Suspicious people are disagreeable; also people who are always taking the pet. Indeed, suspiciousness and pettedness generally go together.
But, far beyond these vulgar objects of curiosity, I regretted not having learned any thing concerning the celebrated upas-tree. I was persuaded that, if I had been at Batavia, I should have extracted some information more precise than these gentlemen obtained from the keepers of the medical garden.
"He struck the mainmast with his hand, The foremast with his knee " All that he had been and all that he had done, if man were only something more than man, if devil's luck and devil's power would come to his whistle, if the seed of his nature could defy the iron stricture of the flesh, reaching its height, shooting up into a terrible upas-tree so for the moment Baldry saw himself.
And so the upas-tree of tragedy spread its poisonous shade until reason fled, and some demon whispered, 'Kill! I find no flaw in my theory. It explains the inexplicable. Now, how does it strike you, Mr. Furneaux?" "As piffle." "Is that so? I have the advantage, of course, in knowing my wife's peculiarities. And I have made some study of Grant. He admits already that he is under suspicion.
Powerful as nutmeg pigeons are on the wing, some suffer lingering deaths in consequence of a singular characteristic of one of the trees of the jungle. Tall and graceful, with luxuriant glossy leaves, there is nothing uncanny about the tree. In style and appearance it is the very antithesis of "the upas-tree," upon which legendary lore cast unmerited responsibility.
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