7/8 Never trust a laudanum-drinker. You'll see me, by the eye of imagination, committing all the seven deadly sins; and by the tongue of inspiration go forth and proclaim the same at the town-head. I can't kill you, and I can't cure you, so I must endure you. What said old Goethe, in all the German I ever cared to recollect:-- "'Der Wallfisch hat doch seine Laus; Muss auch die meine haben.' "Now, then, for Mrs.Penberthy's draughts. |