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Miss Quincey was always dipping into those poets now, always drawing water from the wells of literature. By the way, she was head over heels in debt to Sordello, and was working double time to pay him off. She reported her progress with glee. It was "only a hundred and thirty-eight more pages, Dr. Cautley. In forty-six days I shall have finished Sordello."
After six there would be no pipe and no peace for him, but the knocking and ringing at his front door would go on incessantly till seven-thirty. There was flattery in every knock, for it meant that Dr. Cautley was growing eminent, and that at the ridiculously early age of nine-and-twenty. There was a sharp ring now. He turned wearily in his chairs. "There's another damned patient," said Dr.
I jumped out of bed and burst into tears as I said, 'This is to tell us that Sir Richard is dead. At that moment the maid brought in the letter for my brother from Dr. Baker. I ran with it into his room. 'Albert, Albert, I cried, 'Sir Richard is dead. He opened the letter. It was only too true." The same morning, Mr. P. P. Cautley, the Vice Consul, was called up to the house.
Cautley would take the faintest interest in me, let alone like me." "He does like you, dear Miss Quincey, I know he does." "How do you know?" "He told me so." "It is not unhappiness; certainly not unhappiness. On the contrary I have been happy, quite happy lately. And I think it has been bad for me. I wasn't used to it.
Cautley had suggested and Miss Quincey refused on the grounds that she "couldn't fancy it." For a long time Miss Quincey was supremely happy in the belief that these delicacies were sent by the Head; and she said to herself that one had only to be laid aside a little while for one's worth to be appreciated.
"Oh, I know he will do it; he has done it to all his patients. He is so dreadfully absent-minded." If Miss Quincey had not been as guileless as the little old maid she was, she would have recognised these indications of intimacy; as it was, she said with superior conviction, "My dear, I know Dr. Cautley. He has never cut me before, and he would not do it now without a reason.
And all the time the Old Lady's eyes, and her voice too, were sharper than ever; from the corner where she dreamed she watched Miss Quincey incessantly between the dreams. At times the Old Lady was shaken with terrible and mysterious mirth. Bastian Cautley began to figure fantastically in her conversation.
Rhoda sent for a hansom, and having left Miss Quincey at her home went off in search of a doctor. She had insisted on a doctor, in spite of Miss Quincey's protestations. After exploring a dozen dingy streets and conceiving a deep disgust for Camden Town, she walked back to find her man in the neighbourhood of St. Sidwell's. Bastian Cautley, M.D. It was half-past five and Dr.
The undertaker, who was already there, asked in Mr. Cautley's presence to what religion Sir Richard belonged. Turning to Mr. Cautley, Lady Burton asked: "What religion shall I say?" "Tell him Sir Richard's true religion," replied Mr. Cautley. She then said, "Catholic." "But!" interjected Mr. Cautley. "YES," followed Lady Burton, "he was a Catholic."
There has been some awful mistake. If I only knew what I had done!" "You've done nothing. I wouldn't worry if I were you." "I can't help worrying. You don't know, Rhoda. The bitter and terrible part of this friendship is, and always has been, that I am under obligations to Dr. Cautley.
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