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Some take to flight, others hide themselves; the cuttle-fish vomits blood; the cramp-fish benumbs; and there are many animals that, by their intolerable stink, oblige their pursuers to retire.
"If he vomits he will not die!" Marcia exclaimed. Galen nodded. He appeared immensely satisfied expectant. "Galen, have you will that poison kill him?" Marcia demanded. "No," said Galen. "Pertinax must kill him. I promised I would do my best for Pertinax. Behold your opportunity!" Pertinax strode toward him, clutching at a dagger underneath his tunic.
Now tangena is a fruit of which a little vomits the patient, and a good deal poisons or kills him; a quality which sufficiently explains how they manage that ordeal. Ordeals by fire and water are still practiced, with some variations, in Hindostan, China, Pegu, Siberia, Congo, Guinea, Senegambia and other pagan nations. Some of those still in use are odd enough.
Before any one of its pernicious effects is fully dilated a thousand others appear; the hydra still shoots out new heads, and every head vomits out new poison to infect society, and lay the nation desolate.
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