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...good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa of one of his followers, Lady Vittal Das Thackersey...
...hard to drink enough for his needs. On the fifth day he got his second wind at starving: his system had temporarily given up hope for food. Vichy water had stopped the nausea. By day Gandhi basked in the sun; by night he stared at the stars from Lady Thackersey's veranda. His eyes sank further into his head, his collarbone stuck out like a harness. But as he began the second week of his fast he was cheerful. His wife, released from jail, was with him. His son Harilal (eldest of four) came to make his filial peace...