7/19 And I've not even the satisfaction of having got my gout in an honourable way. If it had come to me from a fine old three-bottle ancestor! But I, who never had a grandfather, and hardly tasted wine till I was thirty years old--why, I feel ashamed to call myself gouty. Sit down, my wife's at church. Strange thing that people still go to church--but they do, you know. Force of habit, force of habit. |