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Also my humble self, ready to be your right-hand man. I promise you this, if the least thing goes wrong and you ask it I'll take your place without a word. Jack, the case is one that needs you. I've never done this operation: you have. You've written a monograph on it. It's up to you, John Leaver. I don't dare you to do it, I dare you not to do it!"
Vice-Presidents—Messrs. Leaver and Scroo. ‘MR. CRINKLES exhibited a most beautiful and delicate machine, of little larger size than an ordinary snuff-box, manufactured entirely by himself, and composed exclusively of steel, by the aid of which more pockets could be picked in one hour than by the present slow and tedious process in four-and-twenty.
He smiled at her, his hazel eyes dark as they often were when something had stirred him deeply, and she guessed enough of the meaning of this aspect to keep her from looking at Dr. Leaver until he had been for some time upon the porch.
But, finally, she sat up, threw up her head, lifted both arms above it, the hands clenched tight. "Charlotte Ruston," she whispered fiercely, "you have to be strong and strong and stronger yet! You have to be! You have to be!" Then she rose quickly to her feet, with a motion not unlike that with which John Leaver had sprung to his an hour before.
If he'd been slower than usual it would have been only natural, after this interval, but he's been faster. Oh, but I'm glad glad!" The event was over. Both Leaver and Burns, no longer under the necessity of avoiding contact with things unsterilized, felt the small patient's pulse and nodded at each other. The assistants bore Jamie Ferguson's little inert body away, Miss Dodge attending. Dr.
And as we bring also the news that Jack Leaver has brought down the hospital roof with applause this morning, you won't mind." "What did he do?" Charlotte asked, eagerly. Burns briefly described the case without describing it at all after the manner of the profession when enlightening the laity.
Leaver, and said he really ought to go, and that he was not strong enough for such violent exercise, and ought never to have undertaken it. Reluctantly, Mr. Leaver went, and laid himself down at Mrs. Leaver’s feet, and Mrs. Leaver stooping over him, said, ‘Oh Augustus, how could you terrify me so?’ and Mr. Leaver said, ‘Augusta, my sweet, I never meant to terrify you;’ and Mrs.
In that instant's glance he thought the old Leaver stood before him, cool, collected, armed to the teeth, as it were, for the fight, and looking forward to it with eagerness.
Do I really seem as ready to bounce out of my chair and tackle somebody as that picture makes me look? If I do I need to have a tourniquet applied somewhere about my neck to stop the flow of blood to my bumptious head." Smiling, Leaver studied the photograph in question. "It's the best I ever saw of you.
He brought out clearly, however, the fact that Leaver had attacked with great skill and success several exceedingly difficult problems, and that his fellow surgeons had been generous enough to concede to him all the honour which was his due. "And now what about your case?" Charlotte asked, realizing suddenly what the morning's experience was to have been to Burns himself.
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