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An unmistakably "doctorish" odour accompanied him an odour not disagreeable but associated with modern means for securing perfect cleanliness. He wore his white jacket, fresh from Cynthia's painstaking hands. His eyes were very bright, his lips were smiling. His arms came about her from behind, his head against hers gently forced it back to face the mirror.
"I'll tell you what they do," said Peter; "they strap the broken man down so that he can't resist or interfere with their doctorish designs, and then someone holds his head, and someone holds his leg the broken one, and pulls it till the bones fit in with a crunch, mind you! Then they strap it up and let's play at bone-setting!" "Oh, no!" said Phyllis.
Getting into the house we found that Chung had the downstairs all opened up through, lights going, heat turned on from the basement furnace; everywhere that tended, homelike appearance a competent servant gives a place. On the hall table as we passed, I noticed a doctorish top coat, with a primly folded muffler laid across it. "Dr. Bowman is here," Barbara said hardly above her breath.
In at the long window she hurried her, out of the rain which was dashing against it. "I expect you'll think it smells sort o' doctorish," she said, apologetically. "Opening out of the office, so, it's kind o' hard to keep it from getting that queer smell, 'specially when he's always running in to do things to his hands. But, land! his windows are always open, night and day, so it might be worse."
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