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I do not mind nobody wanting me if the Almighty decreed it so for His own wise purposes. But sometimes doubt creeps in, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and I wonder if maybe the Old Scratch has not more to do with it than anyone else. I cannot feel resigned THEN. But maybe," added Susan, brightening up, "I will have a chance to get married yet.
So beneficial was its effect on the children, with the assistance of the fish, that the doctor was now able to commence his proposed exploring expedition.
We had a young doctor aboard with us quite a youth; indeed he had not finished his studies at college, but he was cleverer, for all that, than many an older man that had gone through his whole course. I do believe that the reason of his being so clever was, that he was for ever observing things, and studying them, and making notes, and trying to find out reasons.
The private stood in the middle of the square and cursed colonel, regiment, officers, and doctor, particularly the doctor, by his gods. An orderly of the native cavalry regiment clattered through the mob of soldiers. He was half lifted, half dragged from his horse, beaten on the back with mighty hand-claps till his eyes watered, and called all manner of endearing names.
Moore replied, without knowing in the least to what her daughter referred. The doctor, who was present at the time, turned away. He knew more than the mother.
To this Pasquarello answered quite angrily, that it was mere envy on the Doctor's part. To speak heart in hand, the Doctor himself had a pretty good dash of all which he was finding fault with in the admirable Signor Pasquale. Speaking, as he was, heart in hand, he had often, himself, known some six hundred people or so to laugh with all their throats at Doctor Graziano himself.
In low swampy places we several times came across old wind-and rain-bleached antlers, shed in the late fall of the previous year. We had traveled for a couple of hours since luncheon when we stopped for another breathing spell. Sammy was explaining the lie of the country to the doctor, who nodded.
"Doctor Grim, now you are laughing at us," said Ned, trying to look grave. "It is true!" reiterated the grim Doctor; "for, man and boy, I have seen it a thousand times."
But most old houses have one respectable ghost attached to them. I don't mind the ghost Pegler fancies she saw but, good heavens, the place now seems full of tricksy spirits! Still, it's an odd fact that none of the servants, with the one exception of Miss Farrow's maid, have seen anything out of the way." Here the doctor broke in: "That's easily accounted for!" he exclaimed.
There is no tonic half so good as news of a tiger, and I feel that even news of a bear would rival in a great many cases all that a doctor could do for me.
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