Actions and reactions

Name: Actions and reactions
Author: Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

Pages: about 239
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 4.4 h at 250 wpm

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ACTIONS AND REACTIONS AN HABITATION ENFORCED THE RECALL GARM—A HOSTAGE THE POWER OF THE DOG THE MOTHER HIVE THE BEES AND THE FLIES WITH THE NIGHT MAIL THE FOUR ANGELS A DEAL IN COTTON THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE PUZZLER THE PUZZLER LITTLE FOXES GALLIO'S SONG THE HOUSE SURGEON THE RABBI'S SONG
My friend, if cause doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee... Thank God that so hath blessed thee, And sit down, Robin, and rest thee. --THOMAS TUSSER.
It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins' suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works.
“Smilax,” said George Chapin when he saw them. “Fitz is right. I'm dead; only I don't see why he left out the 'In Memoriam' on the ribbons!”
“Nonsense!” his wife answered, and poured him his tincture. “You'll be back before you can think.”
He looked at himself in the mirror, surprised that his face had not been branded by the hells of the past three months. The noise of the decks worried him, and he lay down, his tongue only a little pressed against his palate.

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