It will not hurt him.

I have told him already he has just the proper temperament to stand the drug.

Such people are rare: HE is one of them." We administered the dose, trembling.

Sebastian took it like a man, and dropped off instantly, for lethodyne is at least as instantaneous in its operation as nitrous oxide.
He lay long asleep.

Hilda and I watched him.
After he had lain for some minutes senseless, like a log, on the couch where we had placed him, Hilda stooped over him quietly and lifted up the ends of the grizzled moustache.