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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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101 utmost capacity -- and even seem to be bulging on the sides. Since there were no available seats we sat on our baggage in the narrow corridor. The stomach was misbehaving to begin with and prevailing circumstances did not better the situation. So beset with abdominal distress and physical discomfort, I wept bitterly. A nice friendly Englishman later gave me his seat and I was wedged in next to the window facing the engine. Perhaps he didn't see the tears -- I should like to think that he had not. There was also the one other day which already has been noted many pages back; that day in north Holland when I was overcome with a stage of absolute fatigue; but which straightened out quickly enough with few days of inactivity. This incident left never a ripple on the placid surface of time and life continued much as before without even an internal murmur. England If there was any other disturbance than those already related it was of minor character for it does not stand out as a matter of any importance in my mind. There was then this period of several months duration from April on until September when we returned, and after that well on into the winter when all seemed quiescent in the stomach. All these thirteen months of treking abroad I was wholly free from any trace of hay fever whatsoever. It was not seemingly fitting that the minute we had arrived in the New York harbor, had docked and had made a landing that I should have been greeted by my old enemy and should suffer one of my most
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101 utmost capacity -- and even seem to be bulging on the sides. Since there were no available seats we sat on our baggage in the narrow corridor. The stomach was misbehaving to begin with and prevailing circumstances did not better the situation. So beset with abdominal distress and physical discomfort, I wept bitterly. A nice friendly Englishman later gave me his seat and I was wedged in next to the window facing the engine. Perhaps he didn't see the tears -- I should like to think that he had not. There was also the one other day which already has been noted many pages back; that day in north Holland when I was overcome with a stage of absolute fatigue; but which straightened out quickly enough with few days of inactivity. This incident left never a ripple on the placid surface of time and life continued much as before without even an internal murmur. England If there was any other disturbance than those already related it was of minor character for it does not stand out as a matter of any importance in my mind. There was then this period of several months duration from April on until September when we returned, and after that well on into the winter when all seemed quiescent in the stomach. All these thirteen months of treking abroad I was wholly free from any trace of hay fever whatsoever. It was not seemingly fitting that the minute we had arrived in the New York harbor, had docked and had made a landing that I should have been greeted by my old enemy and should suffer one of my most
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