id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-025 chapter-025 .txt text/plain 5603 343 90 You know he wanted me to stay with him at Gland in Switzerland, begged me to come, said he would do everything for me. He begged me so cordially not to go that I stayed on; but in a little while I noticed that the beer got less and less in quantity, and one day when I ventured to ask for a second bottle at lunch he told me that it cost a great deal and that he could not afford it. One day he told me frankly that Lord Alfred Douglas had come into a fortune of 15,000 or 20,000, "and," he added, "of course he's always able to get money. Of course you know in the old days when his plays were being given in London he was rich and gave me some money, and now he says I ought to settle a large sum on him; I think it ridiculous, don't you?" ./cache/chapter-025.txt ./txt/chapter-025.txt