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Updated: May 31, 2025
The old lady is seriously ill, and all our young coquettes are going in for nursing. We have a sick lady at our house, I am sorry to say, and she is nursed like a queen by Doctress Gale and ex Flirt Fanny Dover. Now is fulfilled the saying that was said, 'O woman! in our hours of ease
I was alarmed last night, and if I had not been forced to hurry away to a dying patient, I certainly would not have left you; but my mother herself is something of a doctress, and Martha an excellent nurse. I saw the case was a fainting-fit, not necessarily dangerous. What brought it on, I have yet to learn, and all particulars; meantime, I trust you really do feel better?"
Severne having done his best to detach the poor doctress from Vizard and his family, in which the reader probably discerns his true motive, now bent his mind on slipping back to Homburg and looking after his money. Not that he liked the job. To get hold of it, he knew he must condense rascality; he must play the penitent, the lover, and the scoundrel over again, all in three days.
The other ladies were not sorry to get rid of an irrelevant zealot, who talked neither love, nor dress, nor anything that reaches the soul. So Zoe said, "What, going already?" and having paid that tax to politeness, returned to the house with alacrity. But the doctress would not go without her Wolf's-bane, Aconite ycleped.
The irrelevant zealot being gone, the true business of the mind was resumed; and that is love-making, or novelists give us false pictures of life, and that is impossible. As the doctress drove from the front door, Lord Uxmoor emerged from the library a coincidence that made both girls smile; he hoped Miss Vizard was not too tired to take another turn. "Oh no!" said Zoe: "are you, Fanny?"
It was built by a certain doctress who has acquired her wealth by the murder of helpless innocents. The unhappy victims of these ghouls are not generally of the low and debased sort.
The doctress would never have yielded. She visits, and prescribes, and laughs at the law, as love is said to laugh at locksmiths. To be sure, in this country, a law is no law, when it has no foundation in justice, morality, or public policy. Happy in her position, and in her friends, she now reviews past events with the candor of a mind that loves truth sincerely.
At this she began to fear lest he were dead; nevertheless she proceeded to pinch him sharply and burn his flesh with a lighted taper, but all to no purpose; wherefore, being no doctress, for all her husband was a physician, she doubted not but he was dead in very deed.
They tried to keep her out of the Taddington infirmary; but she went, almost crying, to Vizard, and he exploded with wrath. He consulted Lord Uxmoor, and between them the infirmary was threatened with the withdrawal of eighty annual subscriptions if they persisted. The managers caved directly, and Doctress Gale is a steady visitor.
"Tessa," she said one day, sidling up to that Tessa Bibye who had cast a taunt in her teeth, "know you the charm which that doctress of the Crees gave to Marci Varendree when she sickened for love of that half-breed, Tohi Stannard?" "Oho!" cried Tessa gleefully, "a man again! Who lacks one now, Francette?"
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