We have no alternative but to accept the consequences for the sake of the cure." He did not mention what his malady had been; and I abstained, it is needless to say, from questioning him further.

I got used to his disfigurement in the course of my relations with him; and I should no doubt have forgotten my blue man in attending to more absorbing matters of interest, if the effects of Nitrate of Silver as a medicine had not been once more unexpectedly forced on my attention, in another quarter, and under circumstances which surprised me in no ordinary degree.
Having saved Papa on the brink of--let us say, his twentieth precipice, it was next necessary to stay a few days longer and reconcile him to the hardship of being rescued in spite of himself.

You would have been greatly shocked, if you had seen how he suffered.

He gnashed his expensive teeth; he tore his beautifully manufactured hair.

In the fervour of his emotions, I have no doubt he would have burst his new stays--if I had not taken them away, and sold them half-price, and made (to that small extent) a profit out of our calamity to set against the loss.