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me so hard that I burst into tearsand said: ‘Lordsirwhat must I do?’
‘Pox take you for a slut [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!’ said he; ‘would you spoil my lockand break my key.’
‘Whysirthe drawer is locked.’‘Oh [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! I beg your pardon’said he. ‘I thought you
were going to pull it out by the key: wellopen it and do what I bid you.’
Laetitia found the ?at bottle. Swift produced a piece of gingerbread and
tried to make her eat some. He always breakfasted bet[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n the Deanery
and the cathedralhe said‘and I carry my provision in my pocket’. As the
pregnant Laetitia was ‘terribly a?icted with the heartburn’she declined
but he insisted; also that she took a sup from the bottle. She held it to her
mouthpretending to drink. He then ‘threw me downforced the bottle
into my mouthpoured some of the liquor down my throatwhich I
thought would have set my very stomach on ?re’.
‘He then gravely went to prayers’––presumably munching on his gin-
gerbread––‘and I returned homenot greatly delightedbuthoweverglad
to have come o? no worse.’ Laetitia is writing of events a quarter of a
century earlier. Yet the very pettiness and inconsequentiality of the scenes
she describes lend them verisimilitude. (The cabinet is still in the Deanery.
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