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They separated here, some to go up to the higher part, while others were to go down in the same direction as Annetta. The girl looked up at the doctor's windows, and her small eyes flashed viciously. It would be a pleasant ending to the two days' holiday to have a look at her work. Now that he was getting well, as Dalrymple told her, she was glad that she had not killed him.
On ibis practice, however, he had married, and his wife, who had been a doctor's daughter and a national schoolmistress, had the same ardors as himself. They lived in one of the dismal little squares near the Goswell Road, and had two children. The wife, as a Positivist mother is bound to do, tended and taught her children entirely herself.
This was no fault of the doctor's, certainly, for he took unwearied pains with the lad, keeping him close to the pestle and mortar, or on the trot about town with phials and pill-boxes; and if he ever flagged in his industry, which he was rather apt to do, the doctor would fly into a passion, and ask him if he ever expected to learn his profession, unless he applied himself closer to the study.
I don't know where I shall go. It would mortify mother dreadfully to have me driving about Philadelphia in a doctor's gig." Philip laughed at the idea of it. "And does it seem as necessary to you to do it as it did before you came to Fallkill?"
"It's a ring with magic powers nothing to do with any young lady, as you thought. It turns pale at the approach of poison." "Let's get some poison, and try. Isn't there some poison in the house?" "I dare say there is, in the kitchen. You might touch the bell and ask." "I shall do nothing of the sort. I mean private poison doctor's bottles blue ones with embossed letters.... You know?" "I know.
"In the evening, the squire himself walked to Ascot House with me, where he saw the doctor's wife, and asked her to allow me to visit them on the morrow, as his little girl was going to entertain a host of young friends, the number of which would not be complete unless I made one of them. Permission was given, and I went to bed to dream of the pleasures the morrow was to bring.
You will bring on the fever. I remain here to watch. It is by the doctor's orders." She sat down heavily within a few feet of us. "You speak French?" Guest asked me. I nodded. "Fairly well!" "Watch her! See whether she seems to understand. I want to speak of what she must not hear." She half rose from her chair. So far as her features could express anything, they expressed disquietude.
So reasoned this unprincipled boy, and he had actually made up his mind to make no attempt to restore the money to a place where it might be found, but to retain it for himself, when the doctor's address and a dread that his crime might after all be detected, decided him to return to his first intentions. There was little time to be lost now.
Antonia had a question in her eyes but her perfect breeding kept her from putting it into words, after the final expression of the doctor's speech. Of course, I could not ignore the allusion, and said: "Mona is a friend of the doctor's whom I have not the pleasure of knowing.
He did not wait for Ruth's broken cry of gratitude, but was gone as soon as the child was in her arms. "Come, boys," I heard him cry cheerily outside, "lend a hand to help the governor to his room: he's got a scratch or two, and the doctor's coming to dress them. He will be all right again before we can get things set straight round here."
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