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Updated: May 2, 2025
Vaguely, and quite unjustly, he felt as if his cousin were in some way to blame; and for the moment, he was not sorry to be rid of him. Partings over, he went off for a lone prowl hatless, as usual to quiet his jangling sensations and tell that inner, irresolute Roy not to be a treble-distilled fool.... Nothing like the open moor to clear away cobwebs.
From which we have learnt that our treble-distilled Areopagites care not a rush for bribery, elections, interregnum, lèse majesté, or, in fact, for the state generally; but that they would rather that a father of a family were not murdered on his own hearth-stone and even that preference not very decided. There were twenty-two votes for acquittal, twenty-nine for condemnation!
Surely it would not be difficult to introduce the prison fare gradually. There is real danger in a shock to the basic organ of life when all the other organs are painfully accommodating themselves to a radical change of environment. Weak men are sometimes shattered by it. My constitution is a strong one, and a dyspeptic old friend used to envy my "treble-distilled gastric juice."
But they had proof of a love almost greater than it was previous to the offence, in the tender precautions they took to elude repulsion. He was rolling on the rug, communicating contagion. Flasks of treble-distilled lavender water, and their favourite, traditional in the family, eau d'Arquebusade, were on the toilet-table. They sprinkled his basket, liberally sprinkled the rug and the little dog.
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