Pains,
incapacities, vile fears, black moods, despairs. How well I've known
them. They've taken more time than all your holidays. It is true, is it
not, that every man is something of a cripple and something of a beast?
I've dipped a little deeper than most; that's all. It's only now when he
has fully learnt the truth of that, that he can take hold of himself to
be neither beast nor cripple. Now that he overcomes his servitude to
his body, he can for the first time think of living the full life of his
body.... Before another generation dies you'll have the thing in hand.
You'll do as you please with the old Adam and all the vestiges from the
brutes and reptiles that lurk in his body and spirit. Isn't that so?'
'You put it boldly,' said Fowler.
Karenin laughed cheerfully at his caution.... 'When,' asked Karenin
suddenly, 'when will you operate?'
'The day after to-morrow,' said Fowler. 'For a day I want you to drink
and eat as I shall prescribe. And you may think and talk as you please.'
'I should like to see this place.'
'You shall go through it this afternoon. I will have two men carry
you in a litter. And to-morrow you shall lie out upon the terrace. Our
mountains here are the most beautiful in the world....'
Section 3
The next morning Karenin got up early and watched the sun rise over
the mountains, and breakfasted lightly, and then young Gardener, his
secretary, came to consult him upon the spending of his day.
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