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I shall try to be in Burlington Row in an hour from this time; but in any case you will wait there till I come. I suppose, in a desperate case like this, Dr. Jedd will put aside all less urgent work?" "No doubt of that." "I trust to you to secure his sympathy," said Valentine. He was in the darksome entrance-hall by this time. Mr. Burkham followed, and opened the door for him.
His name was Halliday." Mr. Burkham had drawn out the drawer to its farthest extent. As Valentine pronounced this name, he let it drop to the ground with a crash, and sat, statue-like, staring at the speaker. All other names given to mortal man he might forget; but this one never.
Doctor Weldon and Miss Burkham had conferred together and decided that as long as the girls were sleeping, they would be neither hungry nor thirsty, so they allowed them to sleep until they awakened of themselves. The perversity of human nature showed itself in every girl's being awake unusually early. At the usual breakfast hour, the upper halls were filled.
Burkham; my dearest friend, a young lady well, in plain truth, the woman who was to have been my wife, and whom I love as it is not the lot of every plighted wife to be loved this dear girl has been wasting away for the last two or three months under the influence of an inscrutable malady, and Dr. Doddleson is the only man called to attend her in all that time." "A mistake!" said Mr.
Burkham winced again, for this sounded still more like begging "mental distress" Mr. Burkham gave a little sigh of relief "and I come to you for advice." Mr. Burkham gave a more profound sigh of relief. "I can assure you that my best advice is at your command," he said, seating himself, and motioning to his visitor to be seated.
"Nonsense, dear boy; that's just what a man who has not been accustomed to illness is sure to think directly he is laid up for a day or two." "I've been laid up for three weeks," murmured Mr. Halliday rather fretfully. "Well, well, perhaps this Mr. Burkham will bring you round in three days, and then you'll say that your friend Sheldon was an ignoramus."
Burkham gave himself up to the composition of a farce, adapted, not from the French, but from his memories of Wright and Bedford in the jovial old student days, when the pit of the Adelphi Theatre had been the pleasant resort of his evenings. He could no longer afford the luxury of theatrical entertainments, except when provided with a free admission.
Burkham was at home, and ushered him into a darksome and dreary surgery at the back of the house, where a phrenological head, considerably the worse for London smoke, surmounted a dingy bookcase filled with the dingiest of books. A table, upon which were a blotting-book and inkstand, and two shabby horsehair chairs, composed the rest of the furniture.
Sheldon, and suggested the expediency of calling in some grave elderly doctor, to supersede Mr. Burkham. But against this the dentist protested very strongly. "You asked me to call in a stranger, Mrs. Halliday, and I have done so," he said, with the dignity of an offended man.
But the combination most surprising, was where a large cheese had tumbled down upon a dead cow which had been washed in from some dairy farm far up the river. Men were already clearing the streets, and shoveling the refuse from the stores. From the business thoroughfare, Miss Burkham led her charges to the residence street. Here conditions were the same.
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