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"That's his merit," Benjulia answered; "the women-servants have quarrelled with every other man I've had. They can't quarrel with this man. I have raised his wages in grateful acknowledgment of his usefulness to me. I hate noise." "Is that the reason why you don't keep a watch-dog?" "I don't like dogs. They bark."
"Is the cook down there?" "Yes, sir." "What is she doing?" "Crying her heart out." Benjulia turned away again with the air of a disappointed man. A violent moral shock sometimes has a serious effect on the brain especially when it is the brain of an excitable woman.
To my place, sir, if you please. Only to my place." She attempted to lift Carmina from the sofa and drew back, breathlessly watching her. Her rigid face faintly relaxed; her eyelids closed, and quivered. Mr. Gallilee looked up from his wife. "Will one of you help me?" he asked. His tone struck Benjulia. It was the hushed tone of sorrow no more. "I'll see to it directly."
For an excellent end for knowledge." "If I fail to remedy the mischief, which is your doing, and yours alone " Benjulia took his pipe out of his mouth. "How do you mean to cure her?" he eagerly interposed. "Have you got a new idea?" "If I fail," Ovid repeated, "her death lies at your door. You merciless villain as certainly as that moon is now shining over us, your life shall answer for hers."
"That's downright cynicism, Benjulia!" The doctor reflected. "Is it?" he said. "Perhaps you may be right again. I think it's only indifference, myself. Curiously enough my brother looks at it from your point of view he even used the same word that you used just now. I suppose he found my cynicism beyond the reach of reform. At any rate, he left off coming here. I got rid of him on easy terms.
In the first bitterness of his disappointment, Benjulia conceived an angry suspicion of those portions of the letter which he had been requested to pass over unread. "What has Morphew got to say to you that I mustn't read?" he asked. "Suppose you tell me first, what you want to find in the letter," Lemuel rejoined. "Morphew is a doctor like you. Is it anything medical?"
In his own experience, he had sometimes found people of feeble minds, who judged by instinct, arrive at sounder conclusions than their superiors in intelligence, who judged by reason. The talk took another turn and, soon after, Doctor Benjulia joined the guests. I don't know whether you have observed that Mr. Gallilee is very fond of his stepson?" Oh, yes! Carmina had noticed that. "I like Mr.
Even his name startled people by the outlandish sound of it. Those enemies who called him "the living skeleton" said it revealed his gipsy origin. In medical and scientific circles he was well and widely known as Doctor Benjulia. Zo ran away with his bamboo stick. After a passing look of gloomy indifference at the duenna, he called to the child to come back.
Null answered stiffly, "I am in consultation with Doctor Benjulia; and I expect him to-day." The reply startled her. "Dr. Benjulia?" she repeated. "The greatest man we have!" Mr. Null asserted in his most positive manner. She silently determined to wait until Doctor Benjulia arrived. "What is the last news of Mr. Ovid?" she said to him, after an interval of consideration.
"How am I to put it?" she went on, with a transparent affectation of embarrassment. "Shall I call it a disgrace to our family?" Mr. Mool started. Mrs. Gallilee entreated him to compose himself; she approached the inevitable disclosure by degrees. "I think," she said, "you have met Doctor Benjulia at my house?" "I have had that honour, Mrs. Gallilee.
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