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Updated: May 11, 2025
She likes very strong brandy." And in this last sentence we have the true secret of her undoing. The Royal Princess was, even tat this early age, a confirmed dipsomaniac, with her brandy bottle always by her side; and was seldom sober, from rising to retiring. To such a woman, a slave to the senses, a husband like the Duc de Berry, unredeemed by a vestige of manliness, could make no appeal.
One hears much nowadays of the "white man's burden." There is such a thing as the white soul's burden. These dipsomaniac cravings with which some men are handicapped, these explosive irascibilities with which some are accursed, these tendencies to impurity with which others are defiled these are the white soul's burden. Some men are more heavily burdened than others.
Her appearance has altered very much for the worse. She is a confirmed dipsomaniac; and she knows it. I advised her to abstain in future. She asked me, in her sarcastic, sisterly way, whether I had any other advice to give her.
Patricia could hardly have told you at what exact moment it was that she discovered Miss Agatha who continued of course to live with them was a dipsomaniac.
It was generally believed that he was a dipsomaniac, sent to the west of Ireland to be cured. It was said that he was very rich and had already ordered huge quantities of meat from Johnny Conerney. He was certainly of unsound mind: Mr. Flanagan's hints about fairies settled that point.
There is my friend the dipsomaniac, the pocket Hercules, the man of brain and iron constitution. Year after year he holds on to his own strange course, neither poverty nor prison, delirium tremens nor physical injuries serve to alter him. He occupies a front seat at a men's meeting on Sunday afternoon when the bills announce my name.
"Suppose, for instance, he could be made to believe that you were, let us say, a dipsomaniac." She shook her head. "He knows that already." "What!" "Yes; I told him I sometimes walked in my sleep." "I mean a secret drinker." "Nothing will induce me to pretend to be a secret drinker." "Then a drug-fiend?" I suggested, hopefully. "I hate medicine." "I have it!" I said. "A kleptomaniac."
In all the years of passage from girlhood to womanhood, she had lived alone with that dipsomaniac, seeing only such society as frequented her aunt's lawn, and little of that. On the day when Bertram Chester went with her to tame the bull, she was as one who steps from the door of a convent.
Nor had it seemed wholly intolerable from his own point of view that, after a struggle prolonged beyond the needs of decency, he should have run away from the contaminations which belonged inevitably to a life spent in the society of an incurable dipsomaniac.
And she lives in Brunswick Place?" "Yes; they have been living there for some years, but before that they were in the country." But to her surprise Mr. Gaythorne interrupted her impatiently. "Yes, yes, you said that before; go on with what you were telling me about her father. He is a dipsomaniac, you say." And then Olivia proceeded with her story.
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