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naturally a right to know that I have conducted an enough decent kind of
life,--although I don't probably deserve special credit for that. A
man that knows enough to be a doctor is not particularly proper to conduct some
other kind. Frankly,--how women tax vices I believe that I only have one.
That that--that that--I am trying to tell him--now--it is around that one." A small
provocatively as to chin, an a little attractively as to look, he voided his
heart of his last tragic secret. "Through the whole male line of mine
family, Miss Malgregor that dipsomania works rampant. Two of my brothers, my
son-in-laws, my grandfather, my great grandfather in front of him has all gone
down as the people of temperance it would say in 'drunkards' graves.' In mine
just case, I have chosen to jeopardize with the bad one. Such choice,
believe me, you/he/she has not gaily been done or impulsively, but out of the
agony and humiliation of--many methods less succeeded." Very hard as a
you cradle, its face grooved in his granite-as you plough again. "Naturally,
under these existing conditions", he almost threateningly warned him, "me
it mawkishly is not particularly susceptible to the ignorant and sentimental
protests of--people whose stronger passions are an appetite
for--candy of chocolate! For eleven months of the year", he expedited on a
bit hoarsely, "for eleven months of the year,--eleven months,--every day
exhaling from dawn to the dark with the guide, nerve-wracking,
job of heart-torsion that falls to my profession, I conduct a completely
abstemious life, neither touching wine neither it anoints with fat, neither even indeed the tea
or coffee. In month,--June twelfth always,--I go way, way above in
Canada,--way, way street in the wood to a small field of trunk I possess
there,--with an Indian that drives me so that eighteen years. And
long live as a--wild man for four sumptuous, care-free, footstep-walking with heavy footstep,
weeks that salmon-fighting,--whiskey-carouse. It is that that Your temperance
friends would call a--'the carousal.' I suppose to be rather frank, that is