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early in the morning and bought for himself a second-hand
bedstead, a cheap chest of drawers, and a looking-glass.
Cronshaw settled down at once to correct his proofs. He
was much better.
Philip found him, except for the irritability which was a
symptom of his disease, an easy guest. He had a lecture at
nine in the morning, so did not see Cronshaw till the night.
Once or twice Philip persuaded him to share the scrappy
meal he prepared for himself in the evening, but Cron-
shaw was too restless to stay in, and preferred generally to
get himself something to eat in one or other of the cheap-
est restaurants in Soho. Philip asked him to see Dr. Tyrell,
but he stoutly refused; he knew a doctor would tell him to
stop drinking, and this he was resolved not to do. He always
felt horribly ill in the morning, but his absinthe at mid-day
put him on his feet again, and by the time he came home,
at midnight, he was able to talk with the brilliancy which
had astonished Philip when first he made his acquaintance.
His proofs were corrected; and the volume was to come out
among the publications of the early spring, when the public
might be supposed to have recovered from the avalanche of
Christmas books.

Of Human Bondage