=?Windows-1251?B?VGhlIG9mZnNwcmluZyB3b3VsZCBiZSBtb2RpZmllZC4gIEJ1dCBob3cgbXlzdGVyaW91cyBhIHN1YmplY3QgaXMgdGhhdCBvZiBnZW5lcmF0aW9uISBBbHRob3VnaCBteSBoeXBvdGhlc2lzIG9mIHBhbmdlbmVzaXMgaGFzIGJlZW4gcmV2aWxlZCBvbiBhbGwgc2lkZXMgeWV0IEkgbXVzdCBzdGlsbCBsb29rIGF0IGdlbmVyYXRpb24u=?=

A birdlike fashion and birdlike too was the pecking motion with which in conversation he threw out his objections and retorts. As he stood with the high collar of his greatcoat raised to his. metformin 850mg Helpers arrived to share Father Damien's labours and to comfort him when he felt depressed and sad; while from time to time a ship might be seen steaming into Molokai from Honolulu filled with the relations and friends of the poor stricken people. The sick and the healthy could not of course touch each other--_that_ was forbidden--but they might sit near enough to talk together and what happiness it must have been to both! Late in the evening the ship weighed anchor and good-byes were shouted across the water. No doubt hearts were heavy both on deck and on the shore where the green cliffs remained crowded as long as the ship was in sight. But it gave the exiles something to look forward to which meant a gre! at deal in their lives. * * * * * Now anyone would have thought that after all Father Damien had done and obtained for them the lepers of Molokai would have been filled with gratitude to their priest. But among the inhabitants of the island there was a large number who met him sullenly with downcast faces and spoke evil of him behind his back. The priest took no notice and greeted them as cheerfully as he did the rest but he knew well the cause of their dislike and he could take no steps to remove it. The reason was not far to seek; he had tried and at last succeeded in putting down the manufacture of spirits from the ki-tree which grew all over the island and made those who drank it not stupid but almost mad. He had been at Molokai for ten years before their enmity died out and that was only when they knew that he like themselves was a leper! For the doom though long delayed fell upon him. When he first suspected it he consulted some of the doctors then on ! the island as besides the one always living there there were others who came for a few months to study the disease under great precautions. They laughed at his words and told him that he was as strong as ever he was and that no one else could have done what he had done for ten years without catching the disease but as he had escaped so far he was probably safe to the end. Father Damien did not contradict them. He saw that they really believed what they stated and were not seeking to soothe his fears; but he went to a German doctor who had not been present with the rest and told him the symptoms he had himself noticed. 'You are right ' said the doctor after a pause and Father Damien went out and sat in a lonely place by the sea. [Illustration: Father Damien went out and sat in a lonely place by the sea. ] In a little while he had faced it all and was master of himself again--and more; as his condition became known he felt that he was working with a new power. Those who had turned a deaf ear to him before listened to him now; he was no longer a! man apart from them whose health had been preserved by some sort of charm but one of themselves. And the awful. fsef68r67e5798wa6est5466465s