Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with a faint but distinct "No"; then after a long pause there came from the deathbed, just audibly, "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though." They were his last words...
Quickly, he opened the first. There, on page 317, adjoining some faint underlinings, were written three words in the margin: "Is this sure?" This defacement was Lucius' work, and his only vice. Each week he recorded some provocative comment in a book, returned it, and then withdrew it again to study what replies he had inspired. In this way he found a forum for his views. The only misfortune was that debate was limited, since his book selections were not the most fashionable, and since his original critic never replied to Lucius's rebuttal. This time there was no response...
...love is born." The two express this new found emotion rather strangely and athletically. The heroine, clad in filmy white, and her new love, more suitably dressed for the long hike ahead of them, set out over hill and dale, under fences, over bridges, through meadows, until finally, faint from fatigue, they float gently downstream in a skiff. Having recovered strength, the two hike back to the house, where unencumbered by clothes, they hop happily into the tub. Luck being with the lovers, neither the husband nor the ex-lover hear all the splashing and the two spend what...