You avoid the moment of suffering, and escape the effort of screwing up your courage for one of these moments, but not the jar to the whole system.

I found the effect of having taken the ether bad for me.

I seemed to taste it all the time, and neuralgic pain continued; this lasted three days.

For the evening of the third, I had taken a ticket to _Don Giovanni_, and could not bear to give up this opera, which I had always been longing to hear; still I was in much suffering, and, as it was the sixth day I had been so, much weakened.

However, I went, expecting to be obliged to come out; but the music soothed the nerves at once.