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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...sweet being. Only the silence of the grave.... CHAPTER VIII Prosaic day came once more, bringing with it the cessation of my fever and the end of my blissful vision. How I longed for the delirium. My host came stumbling up the creaking wooden stairs. He found me sitting upright in bed, fully conscious, and ...
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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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...sweet being. Only the silence of the grave.... CHAPTER VIII Prosaic day came once more, bringing with it the cessation of my fever and the end of my blissful vision. How I longed for the delirium. My host came stumbling up the creaking wooden stairs. He found me sitting upright in bed, fully conscious, and with almost no fever, and uttered a loud cry of joy at the sight. He also found empty the earthenware mug, which had been full of his wife's fever mixture, and which he had placed beside me. I did not tell him that I had not consciously drunk a drop of the medicine, though I might have swallowed it in my delirium, while tortured by burning thirst. It cost me a hard struggle to tear myself away from my mad fancies long enough to thank my host, assuring him f at the same time that he would be richly repaid for saving my life and for his care of me. I did not possess the courage to inquire either concerning the circumstances under which he had found me or how long I had lain in his house. It was as if I wished to remind myself as little as possible of the reality of the affair; as if I dreaded to find the actuality of my existence all too palpable; a weakness which I termed cowardice, without being able to conquer it. My host now told me that his name was Antonia Rafii. That he had a little house outside the gate of San Sebastian, together with a small vegetable garden, from the products of which he and his wife eked out a scanty existence. I also learned that Antonio's son was working as a laborer in either France or Germany. His name was Sandro, and he was just such a beardless young fellow as I. Antonio said that he had kept thinking of his own son all the time that he had been caring for me. His wife, Gigia, so he informed me, was not a bad...
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