[Gutenberg 33645] • The Man Who Couldn't Sleep

[...]prompted me to sit and listen to my works, as the French idiom expresses it, which is never a profitable calling for a naturally nervous man. The lee and the long of it was, as the Irish say, that I went back to Doctor Sanson and demanded something, in the name of God, that would give me a good night's sleep. He was less jocular, this time. He told me to forget my troubles and go fishing for a couple of weeks.[...].