[236]: What business has a physician to waste his time on me? I am a poor pigeon not worth plucking.... As to my individual self I am tranquil. But Burns' poor widow and half a dozen of his dear little ones, there I am weak as a woman's tear.
[237]: A rascal of haberdasher taking into his head that I am dying has commenced a process against me, and will infallibly put my emaciated body into jail. Will you be so good as to accommodate me and by return of post with ten pounds? Oh James! did you know the pride of my heart, you would feel doubly for me! Alas, I am not used to beg!
[238]: Tome II, page 17, Pitt's Speeches.
[239]: Discours de Pitt, 17 février 1800.
[240]: Life of William Pitt, by Macaulay.
[241]: Misdemeanours.
[242]: Felons. Ces termes légaux n'ont pas d'équivalent en français.
[243]: The feelings of a man when he arrives at the place of execution are, probably, much as mine were every time I set my foot in the office, which was every day for more than a half year together.
[244]: In this situation such a fit of passion has sometimes seized me, when alone in my chambers, that I have cried out aloud, and cursed the hour of my birth; lifting up my eyes to heaven not as a suppliant, but in the hellish spirit of rancorous reproach and blasphemy against my Maker.
[245]: My mind has always a melancholy cast, and is like some pools I have seen, which, though filled with a black and putrid water, will nevertheless in a bright day reflect the sunbeams from their surface.