[The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ebb-Tide CHAPTER 5 7/53
He could not touch the soup.
If he had moved at all, it must have been to leave the table, throw himself overboard, and drown--an honest man. 'Here,' said the captain, 'you look sick, old man; have a drop of this.' The champagne creamed and bubbled in the mug; its bright colour, its lively effervescence, seized his eye.
'It is too late to hesitate,' he thought; his hand took the mug instinctively; he drank, with unquenchable pleasure and desire of more; drained the vessel dry, and set it down with sparkling eyes. 'There is something in life after all!' he cried.
'I had forgot what it was like.
Yes, even this is worth while.
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