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vain. In the midst of his arguments he found himself at the
cupboard, with the bottle at his lips, in an attitude that was
at once ludicrous and horrible.
He had no cancer. His disease was a more terrible one.
The Reverend James North—gentleman, scholar, and
Christian priest— was what the world calls ‘a confirmed
drunkard”.
