Though he was a drunkard as his father was, he was not at all such a drunkard as was his father.

The physical capacities of the men were very different.

The daily amount of alcohol which the father had consumed would have burnt up the son in a week; whereas, though the son was continually tipsy, what he swallowed would hardly have had an injurious effect upon the father.
"You are all wrong, quite wrong," said Sir Louis, petulantly; "it isn't that at all.

I have taken nothing this week past--literally nothing.

I think it's the liver." Dr Thorne wanted no one to tell him what was the matter with his ward.