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A few days after this conversation, Stephen was sent to the cellar for another rattaning, and her comment, in accusation, not diagnosis or sympathy, was that he was "not in his right mind."

Death at an Early Age 1969

A few days after this conversation, Stephen was sent to the cellar for another rattaning, and her comment, in accusation, not diagnosis or sympathy, was that he was "not in his right mind."

Death at an Early Age 1967

That gentleman would, if you recollect, courteously beckon an offender to approach him, doffing his hat the while as if speaking to the quarter-deck; and then, begging the trembling youngster's pardon for detaining him, would proceed to inform him in the "politest and most genteel manner in the world" that he was "the d--- d son of a sea cook," -- subsequently rattaning him furiously, amidst a plethora of expletives before which the worst Billingsgate faded into insignificance.

She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.