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Everyone thought that this was the end of Teenchy Duck, but she had had time to cry out: "Oh! my dear friend River, come to my assistance, or I shall be roasted." The River rushed out and quenched the fire and cooled the oven. When the Prince went to see what was left of Teenchy Duck, she met him and began to repeat her familiar song: "Quack! quack! Give me back my beautiful money!"
While this narrative was going on, mingled with bumpers, and bursts of Slavonic good-fellowship, I could not help asking myself whether Lavater was not quack and physiognomy a folly? Could this be the dashing Revolutionist? No plodder over the desk ever wore a more broadcloth countenance; an occasional smile was the only indication of his interest in what was passing around him.
This last declaration he made in consequence of the jealous disposition of the quack, who he knew had long looked upon him in the odious light of an interloping rival.
She drew a long, deep breath, sighed and sank back in her seat, exhausted by the nervous tension to which she had been subjected. The effect upon the quack was hardly less remarkable. He, too, had listened with breathless attention. He tried to analyze and then to resist this mesmeric power, but gradually succumbed.
Well, as soon as he can work it, he marries the richest gal in all his flock, and then his bread is buttered on both sides. "Then comes a doctor, and a prime article he is too, 'I've got, says he, 'a screw auger emetic and hot crop, and if I can't cure all sorts o' things in natur' my name ain't Quack. Well, he turns stomach and pocket, both inside out, and leaves poor Bluenose a dead man.
He was an unsophisticated boy, but the gift of sudden insight which is sometimes vouchsafed to children showed him all at once what shoddy humanity the quack was made of. There was to be no intellectual light from this source. The leaves dropped from his imaginary crown of laurel; he turned to a gate, leant against it, and cried bitterly.
"Piep! piep!" it cried, and in all the eggs there were little creatures that stuck out their heads. "Quack! quack!" they said; and they all came quacking out as fast as they could, looking all round them under the green leaves; and the mother let them look as much as they chose, for green is good for the eye.
The method of obtaining employment chosen by poor Lagarde, as the one alternative left in the face of starvation, was, and is still considered by the medical profession to be, the method of a quack. He advertised in the public journals.
A torrent of water was thrown in the air, with lily-pads broken from their mooring, the water pattered down, the wavelets settled, and the boys stood in astonishment to see what strange animal had made this disturbance; but nothing more of it was seen, and the mystery remained unsolved. Then Yan heard a familiar "Quack!" down the stream.
The patient refused the man's services; they had been fatal, she said, to all her kinsfolk. Oppianicus then contrived to introduce to her a traveling quack from Ancona. He had bribed the man with about seventeen pounds of our money to administer a deadly drug.
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