[Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link bookWithin the Tides CHAPTER XII 228/325
Do you know ?" He named it, and I whistled respectfully.
Nothing less than Parker's Lively Lumbago Pills.
Enormous property! You know it; all the world knows it.
Every second man, at least, on this globe of ours has tried it. "Why!" I cried, "they missed an immense fortune." "Yes," he mumbled, "by the price of a revolver-shot." He told me also that eventually Cloete returned to the States, passenger in a cargo-boat from Albert Dock.
The night before he sailed he met him wandering about the quays, and took him home for a drink.
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