turned to a
prurient curiosity. At the same time I was not always able to
adhere to my diet. But both as regards coition and diet I was
still fighting, and on the whole successfully. My fits of temper,
however, were excessive and my ennui became gloomy despair. One
day I blasphemed on crossing the Park and spoke contemptuously of
"God and his twopenny ha'penny revolving balls," referring to the
planetary system. But for long walks I should have gone mad. A.
was drinking in the intervals of her fits. I found half-empty
bottles of wine hidden away. This did not improve my temper, and
one day--this was when she was well and up--I struck her a heavy
blow on the face, and she aimed a glass decanter at me. She went
home to her mother and I lived alone in the cottage. I heard soon
afterwards that her husband had come back and that they had made
it up. Our parting was not, however, destined to be final.
Even out of that month's sufferings I made capital. I was better
after my tendency to lubricity, my gloom, rage, restlessness and
degradation. They had been but the irritations of convalescence.
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Abrantes, duchesse d'
Adler
Albucasis
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