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Part II: The Explanations of Innocent Smith | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
Chapter I. The Eye of Death; or, the Murder Charge |
Page 12 of 15 |
"`Hang the world, we said,' observed Smith, `and the world is hanged. "He has hanged the world upon nothing," says the Bible. Do you like being hanged upon nothing? I'm going to be hanged upon something myself. I'm going to swing for you... Dear, tender old phrase,' he murmured; `never true till this moment. I am going to swing for you. For you, dear friend. For your sake. At your express desire.' "`Help!' cried the Warden of Brakespeare College; `help!' "`The puppy struggles,' said the undergraduate, with an eye of pity, `the poor puppy struggles. How fortunate it is that I am wiser and kinder than he,' and he sighted his weapon so as exactly to cover the upper part of Eames's bald head. "`Smith,' said the philosopher with a sudden change to a sort of ghastly lucidity, `I shall go mad.' "`And so look at things from the right angle,' observed Smith, sighing gently. `Ah, but madness is only a palliative at best, a drug. The only cure is an operation--an operation that is always successful: death.' |
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