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'Why, said Doctor Bryerly thoughtfully, for he was treating the matter as one of right, and not of feeling, 'it would be, certainly, taking that which does not belong to you, and converting it to your own use; but, at the worst, it would more resemble thieving, I think, than robbery.
A lean man, with sandy hair and whiskers, was in the chaise with him. Dr. Bryerly descended in the unchangeable black suit that always looked new and never fitted him. The Doctor looked careworn, and older, I thought, by several years, than when I last saw him.
I really was curious about Cormoran; but Cormoran was not to be defined to me by Milly; nor did she, in reality, know more than I respecting the arrival of the night before. One day I was surprised to see Doctor Bryerly on the stairs. I was standing in a dark gallery as he walked across the floor of the lobby to my uncle's door, his hat on, and some papers in his hand.
The best way is not to look too far before just from one stepping-stone to another; and though you may wet your feet, He won't let you drown He has not allowed me. And Doctor Bryerly held up his head, and wagged it resolutely.
I know he was beginning himself to hesitate; and I think if he had been spared another year that provision of his will would have been struck out. Doctor Bryerly nodded, and he said 'And if he had the power to dictate now, would he insist on that direction?
If they know better, it's positively fiendish. I'll blow him up I will indeed, my dear. You know you're an heiress, and ought not to appear like a jack-pudding. 'Papa intends sending me to London with Madame and Mary Quince, and going with me himself, if Doctor Bryerly says he may make the journey, and then I am to have dresses and everything. 'Well, that is better.
'I dare say worn out in his young days; and I saw that preparation of opium in his bottle he takes too much. 'Why do you think so, Doctor Bryerly? 'It's made on water: the spirit interferes with the use of it beyond a certain limit. You have no idea what those fellows can swallow. Read the "Opium Eater." I knew two cases in which the quantity exceeded De Quincy's.
Doctor Bryerly, shortly after Lady Knollys had described to him the manner in which Dudley entered my room, visited the house of Bartram-Haugh, and minutely examined the windows of the room in which Mr. Charke had slept on the night of his murder.
It was the visitor whom we had so long expected, with whom he was to make the unknown journey, leaving me alone. The intruder was Death! My father was dead as suddenly as if he had been murdered. One of those fearful aneurisms that lie close to the heart, showing no outward sign of giving way in a moment, had been detected a good time since by Dr. Bryerly.
'We might try him at all events, said Doctor Bryerly, on whose dark sinewy features, even in this imperfect light, I thought I detected a smile. 'Perhaps, said I, 'I appear very foolish in supposing him actuated by any but sordid motives; but he is my near relation, and I can't help it, sir. 'That is a very serious thing, Miss Ruthyn, he replied.
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