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She was coming over him now ; he knew by the alteration of the very air of the room when she was near him ; and that soft thrill of bliss that had begun to stir in him never came unless she was beckoning , beckoning . " The Inimitable , " as he styled himself , was alternately imitated , pirated , loved , and reviled . One of them said that the key was at Number Six . The company 's stock rose 6 percent , or $ 1.69 , to $ 30.10 in late morning trading after the verdict.Members of Merck 's legal team , some with tears in their eyes , hugged each other after the New Jersey verdict . Ninety-one percent of attendees said that as a result of the meeting they were personally committed to working with others to move the vision forward . No : let the miserable wrestle with his own shadows ; let him , if indeed he be so mad , clip and strain and enfold and couch the succubus ; but lt him do so in a house into which not an air of Heaven penetrates , nor a bright finger of the sun pierces the filthy twilight . Merck has said that most plaintiffs took the drug for less than 18 months . Attorneys are taking that kickoff to be the day Merck withdrew its $ 2.5 billion-a-year arthritis pill from the market , Sept. 30 2004.States with a one-year filing deadline include Kentucky , Louisiana and Tennessee , according to Cherry Hill lawyer Mike Ferrara , who filed 48 suits in time to make the Sept. 30 deadline.New York attorney Gary Douglas filed eight cases in New Jersey and 72 others in federal courts — which follow their states ' deadlines — under the wire.Seeger , Ferrara and Douglas said that given the huge backlog in New Jersey , Higbee — who is overseeing every New Jersey case — needs to assign some to other judges and Merck must agree to settle the bulk of them . Once more , as in the days when his writing had had a daily freshness and wonder and promise for him , he was conscious of that new ease and mastery and exhilaration and release , The air of the place seemed to hold more oxygen ; as if his own specific gravity had changed , his very tread seemed less ponderable . Then , for a moment ceasing to watch , he began to empty his trousers pockets and to place methodically in a little row on the mantelpiece the pennies and halfpennies he took from them . A shadow , light as fleece , seemed to take shape in the kitchen ( the time had been when Oleron would have said that a cloud had passed over the unseen mon ) .