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Physicians' prescriptions carefully prepared," and all the rest of it. Shows it to his wife she reads the label; it goes down to the servants THEY read the label. Next day, boy calls: "Very sorry his mistake immense business great many parcels to deliver Mr. Sawyer's compliments late Nockemorf." The name gets known, and that's the thing, my boy, in the medical way.
The old lady nodded the satisfaction which this proof of the surly man's foresight imparted to her feelings; and the surly man giving a smart lash to the chubby horse, they all repaired to Mr. Bob Sawyer's together. 'Martin! said the old lady, when the fly stopped at the door of Mr. Robert Sawyer, late Nockemorf. 'Well? said Martin. 'Ask the lad to step out, and mind the horse.
This little bill is to be wafered on the shop door: "Sawyer, late Nockemorf. Inquire of Mrs. Cripps over the way." Mrs. Cripps is my boy's mother. "Mr. Sawyer's very sorry," says Mrs. Cripps, "couldn't help it fetched away early this morning to a consultation of the very first surgeons in the country couldn't do without him would have him at any price tremendous operation."
'You don't mean to say you weren't down upon me? said Mr. Bob Sawyer, shaking Mr. Winkle's hand with friendly warmth. 'Upon my word I was not, replied Mr. Winkle, returning his pressure. 'I wonder you didn't see the name, said Bob Sawyer, calling his friend's attention to the outer door, on which, in the same white paint, were traced the words 'Sawyer, late Nockemorf.
Ben Allen was fast relapsing into the sentimental, and the punch had well-nigh disappeared altogether, when the boy hastily running in, announced that a young woman had just come over, to say that Sawyer late Nockemorf was wanted directly, a couple of streets off. This broke up the party. Mr.
'The lamplighter has eighteenpence a week to pull the night-bell for ten minutes every time he comes round; and my boy always rushes into the church just before the psalms, when the people have got nothing to do but look about 'em, and calls me out, with horror and dismay depicted on his countenance. "Bless my soul," everybody says, "somebody taken suddenly ill! Sawyer, late Nockemorf, sent for.
It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of 'Sawyer, late Nockemorf, that Mr.
Weller's mind by what he saw, was, that Mr. Martin was hired by the establishment of Sawyer, late Nockemorf, to take strong medicine, or to go into fits and be experimentalised upon, or to swallow poison now and then with the view of testing the efficacy of some new antidotes, or to do something or other to promote the great science of medicine, and gratify the ardent spirit of inquiry burning in the bosoms of its two young professors.
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