Sons And Lovers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Plot & Excerpts
Like all miners, he was a great lover of medicines, which, strangely enough, he would often pay for himself “You mun get me a drop o‘laxy vitral,” he said. “It’s a winderaq as we canna ha’e a sup i’ th”ouse.” So Mrs. Morel bought him elixir of vitriol, his favourite first medicine. And he made himself a jug of wormwood tea. He had hanging in the attic great bunches of dried herbs: wormwood, rue, horehound, elder flowers, parsleypurt, marshmallow, hyssop, dandelion, and centaury. Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely. “Grand!” he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. “Grand!” And he exhorted the children to try. “It’s better than any of your tea or your cocoa stews,” he vowed. But they were not to be tempted. This time, however, neither pills nor vitriol nor all his herbs would shift the “nasty peensar in his head.” He was sickening for an attack of an inflammation of the brain.
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