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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER II
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Of course this"-- he indicated the prostrate figure by a movement of his head--"is quite different.

And the little doctor--what was his name ?" "Smithers ?" "Smithers it was--was quite wrong in trying to fetch him round too soon, according to all accounts.

The things he did! Even now it makes me feel all--ugh! Mustard, snuff, pricking.

And one of those beastly little things, not dynamos--" "Coils." "Yes.

You could see his muscles throb and jump, and he twisted about.
There were just two flaring yellow candles, and all the shadows were shivering, and the little doctor nervous and putting on side, and _him_--stark and squirming in the most unnatural ways.


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