"It is still truth, is it not? If my agitation is to be his agitation." Part of their vows. Your pain, my pain. And so what if Burr is? Agitated and in pain. The only cure for that is solitude. Perhaps if he goes away long enough--no one will remember it happened.
"Nothing worse than I have welcomed gladly in the past," Burr says. Before Hamilton. Because that is a Burrian needle--playing at things too much for polite company. A dare to wiggle his way free. And because he wants to hurt, now. Not in any obvious way. Wants to embarrass. To--to make Ned feel foolish, for asking.
"You would do well to attend to yourself than me," he says. "Or perhaps one who does not welcome or take pleasure in the pain wrought by treatment or defilement." Yes, a doctor wouldn't be squeamish about the bodily. But perhaps he would be, about that, given his relation to Hamilton. Do not touch Burr, he might like it. And what would Hamilton say?
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"Nothing worse than I have welcomed gladly in the past," Burr says. Before Hamilton. Because that is a Burrian needle--playing at things too much for polite company. A dare to wiggle his way free. And because he wants to hurt, now. Not in any obvious way. Wants to embarrass. To--to make Ned feel foolish, for asking.
"You would do well to attend to yourself than me," he says. "Or perhaps one who does not welcome or take pleasure in the pain wrought by treatment or defilement." Yes, a doctor wouldn't be squeamish about the bodily. But perhaps he would be, about that, given his relation to Hamilton. Do not touch Burr, he might like it. And what would Hamilton say?