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…What devil of delay possessed him to slip on his spring overcoat, I cannot tell. They say a slight noise rouses a sleeper more surely than a heavy one, and scarcely had the doctor settled himself in his sleeves than the giant waked and seized that silk-faced collar in a hot right hand… |
This is from “My Sunday at Home”, in The Day’s Work. On a train journey through deepest southern England, in the summer time, an American doctor mistakenly thinks that a navvy has taken poison. He administers a powerful emetic to him, and they are now waiting for the draught to have its effect. What follows is spectacular… |
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