Post by Monique Adelina De'Ath on Nov 11, 2021 9:10:42 GMT
1st January 1634
Well, I suppose it's good news....a small crumb of comfort....sigh....but one cannot help but feeling it's a case of 'scraps from the master's table' when there's noble titles being awarded left, right and center! Yet, here am I, securing a post of 'clap' doctor to a brothel of whores, high class whores admittedly but whores nonetheless.
Must try and look at the positives, the monies coming in nicely, I've a fairly decent place to live, plenty of patients and that awful woman is finally out of the picture BUT it still doesn't feel anywhere near enough....it should be me people move out of the way for in the streets, me that people turn round to look at and say 'Oh, look, there goes Duke De'Ath' and me that gets the best seats at the theatre and invites to royal balls. Hrrmmphh....I've got to come up with a cunning plan, a masterpiece of ingenuity to propel myself to the top of society so the day comes when the De'Ath name is regarded above the de Bearne's and Azur's and Bougiedure's......not forgetting the Valanon's....Balls's....Macque's....L'Hopital's....god damn it the list seems almost endless!! It's an outrage I'm almost at the bottom of the heap, a great medical man of my qualities, there's only that Hoffman fellow and the pauper priest Vuillermoz regarded as lower, not counting of course that vulgar new fellow Martel who hasn't even the decency or sense to reply to a job offer!
What with the various Front's going quiet it's not likely that any of them are going to catch a stray bullet either, or a cannonball, as that would thin the list down a bit.....hmmmhh....mind you a plague might do the trick...they'd start dropping like flies then and we'll soon see who comes seeking my services then, noble or not, even his Majesty might send a carriage for me and my standing would soar!! What's the chances of that though? I mean, it would take something drastic like an infected water source or some diseased unfortunate coming off of a foreign ship who gets into the city and....and....but, of course, that would be terrible and being a medical man I'd never wish for that to happen......
Well, I suppose it's good news....a small crumb of comfort....sigh....but one cannot help but feeling it's a case of 'scraps from the master's table' when there's noble titles being awarded left, right and center! Yet, here am I, securing a post of 'clap' doctor to a brothel of whores, high class whores admittedly but whores nonetheless.
Must try and look at the positives, the monies coming in nicely, I've a fairly decent place to live, plenty of patients and that awful woman is finally out of the picture BUT it still doesn't feel anywhere near enough....it should be me people move out of the way for in the streets, me that people turn round to look at and say 'Oh, look, there goes Duke De'Ath' and me that gets the best seats at the theatre and invites to royal balls. Hrrmmphh....I've got to come up with a cunning plan, a masterpiece of ingenuity to propel myself to the top of society so the day comes when the De'Ath name is regarded above the de Bearne's and Azur's and Bougiedure's......not forgetting the Valanon's....Balls's....Macque's....L'Hopital's....god damn it the list seems almost endless!! It's an outrage I'm almost at the bottom of the heap, a great medical man of my qualities, there's only that Hoffman fellow and the pauper priest Vuillermoz regarded as lower, not counting of course that vulgar new fellow Martel who hasn't even the decency or sense to reply to a job offer!
What with the various Front's going quiet it's not likely that any of them are going to catch a stray bullet either, or a cannonball, as that would thin the list down a bit.....hmmmhh....mind you a plague might do the trick...they'd start dropping like flies then and we'll soon see who comes seeking my services then, noble or not, even his Majesty might send a carriage for me and my standing would soar!! What's the chances of that though? I mean, it would take something drastic like an infected water source or some diseased unfortunate coming off of a foreign ship who gets into the city and....and....but, of course, that would be terrible and being a medical man I'd never wish for that to happen......