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Damaged Goods 151
should marry my cousin. It was a good match; her
dowry will help to get me a practice. Besides, I simply
adore her. She s fond of me, too. I had everything one
could want to make my life happy. And then a lot of
idiots must give me a farewell dinner and make me gad
about with them. See what has come of it! I haven t
any luck, I ve never had any luck! I know fellows who
lead the most racketty life: nothing happens to them,
the beasts ! But I for a wretched lark what is
there left for a leper like me? My future is ruined, my
whole life poisoned. Well then, isn t it better for me
to clear out of it? Anyway, I shan t suffer any more.
You see now, no one could be more wretched than I am.
The doctor explains to him that there is no need
for despair, but that he must postpone his mar
riage if he does not wish to ruin his wife and pos
sibly make her sterile for life. It is imperative
especially because of the offspring, which is certain
to be syphilitic.
Doctor. Twenty cases identical with yours have been
carefully observed from the beginning to the end.
Nineteen times you hear, nineteen times in twenty
the woman was contaminated by her husband. You
think that the danger is negligible: you think you have
the right to let your wife take her chance, as you said,
of being one of the exceptions for which we can do
nothing! Very well then; then you shall know what
you are doing. You shall know what sort of a disease
it is that your wife will have five chances per cent, of
contracting without so much as having her leave asked.
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