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your success and of my failure,” said Norstrom
looking gloomily at me across the bottle of St.
Julien.
“It is above all a question of luck,” said I.
“There is also a temperamental difference between
you and me which enables me to seize Fortune by
her hair while you sit still and let her fly past, your
hands in your pockets. I am convinced that you
know more than I do about the human body
in health and disease; it is just possible that
although you are twice my age, I know more
than you do about the human mind. Why did
you tell the Russian professor I handed over to you
that he had angina pectoris, why did you explain
to him all the symptoms of his fatal disease?”
“He insisted upon knowing the truth, I had
to tell him or he would not have obeyed me.”
“I did not tell him anything of the sort, he
obeyed me anyhow. He told you a lie when he
told you he wanted to know everything and that he
was not afraid of death. Nobody wants to know
how ill he is, everybody is afraid of death and for
good reason. This man now is far worse. His
existence is paralysed by fear, it is all your fault.”
“You are always talking about nerves and
mind as if our body was made of nothing else.
The cause of angina pectoris is arterio-sclerosis
of the coronari arteries.”
“Ask Professor Huchard what happened in
his clinic last week while he was demonstrating
to us a case of angina pectoris! The woman
suddenly started a terrible attack which the
Professor himself thought would be fatal. I
asked his permission to try to stop it with mental
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