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Depths and Heights

           Hersorrowswereasstrange,enticingfiguresindreams.Theymovedaboutandaroundher,notasthingsactuallyidenticalwithher,butasillswhichshecouldviewatadistance.Sometimesbothsheandthey(forshesawherselfalsoasinakindofmirageorinvertedvision)seemedbeingsofanotherstate,troubled,butnotbitterlypainful.Theoldnepentheofthebottlehadseizeduponher.Afterafewaccidentallapses,inwhichshefounditactedasasolaceorsedative,thehighballvisioneditselftoherasaresource.Whyshouldshenotdrinkifitrelievedher,asitactuallydid,ofphysicalandmentalpain?Therewereapparentlynobadafter-effects.Thewhiskyinvolvedwasdilutedtoanalmostwaterystate.Itwashercustomnowwhenathomealonetogotothebutler’spantrywheretheliquorswerestoredandprepareadrinkforherself,ortoorderatraywithasiphonandbottleplacedinherroom.Cowperwood,noticingthepersistenceofitspresencethereandthefactthatshedrankheavilyattable,commenteduponit.

           "You’renottakingtoomuchofthat,areyou,Aileen?"hequestionedoneevening,watchingherdrinkdownatumblerofwhiskyandwaterasshesatcontemplatingapatternofneedleworkwithwhichthetablewasornamented.

           "CertainlyI’mnot,"shereplied,irritably,alittleflushedandthickoftongue."Whydoyouask?"Sheherselfhadbeenwonderingwhetherinthecourseoftimeitmightnothaveadepreciatingeffectonhercomplexion.

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