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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3 CHAPTER III THE KILLING OF MARMION MY doctor having succeeded in exiling me and my eight-year-old heir to what he called the recuperative wilderness, sent me occasionally a tart reminder of the wholesome- ness and beauty of the process I was undergoing. He is a delightful megatherium of an extinct school, and his corrective bellowings, muffled by distance, afforded me much amusement in my solitude, and doubtless much edifying precept. Isolation, he wrote me, is the balm of life, and it is better for the constitution than the spice of variety. If I had the power, I would provide unpadded cells for society and shove the gayest of its votaries into them regularly, and turn the key on them, merely to increase the average of human life. I am more and more convinced that the Frenchman was right who said that progress is a disease, and eventually society will die of civilization. It is fast losing the powerand the privilege of taking breath. The path to heaven is choked with late dinners, and we are forgetting the route. (The old pirate, I'll wager he was writing this in his dress-coat, while the coupe was waiting to take him to a banquet.) I have tried my best to introduce a few or my gifted patients to their own economies, but they hadn't time to know themselves. They live in a magnetic bath, and would die of ennui if they did not feel the shock of things going by. They are converting themselves into mere conduits. You are the first fellow I have met who, coming suddenly on his own grave yawning before him, had the pluck to say, ' No, I thank you, ' and walk off in another direction. Bully for you. It was by such artful ticklings of my pride that the old ruffian got me to wear my chains with a sense of heroism. I begged for some news very much as a morphine patient begs for his drug. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443263764
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443263761
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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