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| | BERLIOZ - David Cairns - Penguin UK |
 | | He must assure the future of his son Hector, aged eleven, who would one day, perhaps even quite soon, succeed him, and whose education he had lately taken charge of; and there were three small daughters and their interests to safeguard. |
 | | But another letter of Hector's from the same period bears a revealing annotation in the doctor's hand: "Monument to folly and blind, unbridled passion." The letter, though very strongly expressed, argues Hector's case with clarity and cogency; Dr Berlioz, however, was beyond recognizing it. |
 | | They are loud with complaints about her eternal "gastritis", her husband's deafness and inaccessibility, Hector's mad ideas, the political situation, the silkworm crop, the washing and the general unsatifactoriness of the world. |
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