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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... 'THE EAVESDROPPER. AN UNPARALLELED EXPERIENCE. PART I. CHAPTER I. IN BED. I Had been very ill, some people (I know) had said 'dying, ' for many days. Upon the whole I had been inclined to agree with them. It had neither pleased nor displeased me to do so; a pretty sure sign that my case was serious. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? inquires the poet; to which I answer 'a good many people, and especially those who are half dead already.' When we are very ill it does not seem worth while to prolong the unequal contest which Nature herself seems to be waging against us. 'What must be, mu&t be; and please, nurse, give me some more barley water.' There is no subject upon which more rubbish has been written than on the thoughts of sick men. When the Destroyer seizes us in health and strength and, like a policeman addressing a criminal, exclaims, 'You come along with me, ' the case is quite different. We resent his brutality exceedingly, and above all his obstinacy in refusing bail. There must be, we think, some mistake somewhere; he is confusing us with Jones, our senior by ten VOL. X.--NO. 69, N.S. 21 years, or with Brown, who is a chronic invalid with a temper to match, and who really ought to be sent for. But after lying here for weeks, between asleep and awake, to cease upon the midnight with no pain, ' seemed no such very hard fate; or, at all events, I had learnt to face it with tolerable indifference. I had no dear ones to leave behind me, wherein, as all medical testimony is agreed, lies the rub. 'In an immense experience, ' writes a great physician, 'I have never seen a patient distressed at dying, though often at the pro...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154202373 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154202372 |
| Weight | 1.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.03 In |
| List Price | $33.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 464 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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