Fifteen Years in Hell
FIFTEEN YEARS IN HELL. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. BY LUTHER BENSON, 1885. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Early shadows--An unmerciful enemy--The miseries of the curse--Sorrow and gloom--What alcohol robs man of--What it does--What it does not do--Surrounding evils--Blighted homes--A Titan devil--The utterness of the destroyer--A truthful narrative--"It stingeth like an adder."
Oh, claims, claims! What is the use of claims? If he is not
mine of his own free will, he is not mine at all. And have him
I must! I must have my boy's heart, whole and undivided--now!
BORKMAN.
You must remember that Erhart is well into his twenties. You
could scarcely reckon on keeping his heart very long undivided,
as you express it.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
[With a melancholy smile.] It would not need to be for so very
long.
BORKMAN.
Indeed? I should have thought that when you want a thing, you
want it to the end of your days.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
So I do. But that need not mean for very long.
BORKMAN.
[Taken aback.] What do you mean by that?
ELLA RENTHEIM.
I suppose you know I have been in bad health for many years past?
FIFTEEN YEARS IN HELL. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. BY LUTHER BENSON, 1885. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Early shadows--An unmerciful enemy--The miseries of the curse--Sorrow and gloom--What alcohol robs man of--What it does--What it does not do--Surrounding evils--Blighted homes--A Titan devil--The utterness of the destroyer--A truthful narrative--"It stingeth like an adder."