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It might see worse things, it might see better things, than it expected. And yet I have been endeavoring in these pages to give some account of myself, while, after all, I am obliged to say that it is little more than a post mortem examination. If I had been dealing with the living subject, I suppose I could not have dealt so freely with myself.
Then I called once more on the doctor who had made the post mortem on my father, and given evidence at the inquest, to see if anything he could say might recall my lapsed memory. The moment he came into the room a man about fifty, close-shaven and kindly-looking I recognised him at once, and held out my hand to him frankly.
The various persons who were present at the finding of the body the physicians who had made the post mortem examination, were examined as to their knowledge of the murder, and the circumstances incident thereto.
"Glad I caught you," he said. "I thought you would care to see the post mortem report. The doctor has just handed it in." The chief waved him off. "I don't think there's any doubt about the cause of death," he replied, "we saw the body ourselves..." "Quite so," replied the other, "but there is something interesting about this report all the same. They were able to extract the bullet!"
"Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal?" "'In the midst of life we are in death," said Miss Ophelia. St. Clare rose up, and laying the paper down, carelessly, walked to the door that stood open on the verandah, to put an end to a conversation that was not agreeable to him.
It is worth looking a day or two beyond the turmoil or even joys of our life, and to contemplate in the mind's eye, one's own post mortem and monumental honour.
By Jove, O'Hara, do you know, he is afflicted with infirmity of fits. Yess, I tell you. Cataleptic, too, if not also epileptic. I found him in such a state under a tree in articulo mortem, and he jumped up and walked into a brook and he was nearly drowned but for me. I pulled him out. 'Because I was not there! said Kim. 'He might have died.
I found them all recreating and diverting themselves at the play called muss, either before or after dinner; to me, truly, it is a thing altogether indifferent whether of the two it was, provided that hic not., that the game of the muss is honest, healthful, ancient, and lawful, a Muscho inventore, de quo cod. de petit. haered. l. si post mortem. et Muscarii.
So terrified did he seem, indeed, that for a moment the idea occurred to me in a very vague way Was I talking with the murderer? Had the man who himself committed the crime conducted the post mortem, and put Justice off the scent? And was I now practically at the mercy of the criminal I was trying to track down? The thought for a second or two made me feel terribly uncomfortable.
It seems to us that such verse would be as fine as prose. There would be nothing in common between poetry of this sort and that of which we made a post mortem examination just now.
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