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"Yes, sir," replied Timothy, very respectfully. I took one of the measures, and putting in a little green, a little blue, and a little white liquid from the medicine bottles generally used by Mr Brookes, filled it up with water, poured the mixture into the vial, corked, and labelled it, haustus statim sumendus, and handed it over the counter to the old woman.
"You have guessed right, most learned sir; we are, as you say, wanderers seeking our fortunes, and trust yet to find them still we have a weary journey before us. `Haustus hora somni sumendum, as Aristotle hath it; which I need not translate to so learned a person as yourself." "Nay, indeed, there is no occasion; yet am I pleased to meet with one who hath scholarship," replied the other.
Haustus Pilgrim, a noted London practitioner and specialist, dressed as "Ye Olde-fashioned Pedagogue." He was presumably spending his holiday on the Nile in a large dahabiyeh with a number of friends, among whom he counted the two momentary antagonists he had just interrupted; but those who knew the doctor's far-reaching knowledge and cryptic researches believed he had his own scientific motives.
"I should not be a good doctor if I did not," replied I. "On second thoughts, I consider it advisable and safer, that the application should be external, so I translated the label to her Haustus, rub it in statim, on the throat sumendus, with the palm of the hand." "Deary me! and does it mean all that? How much have I to pay, sir?"
Well, my insides are out of order, and I prescribes for myself black draughts `omnes duas horas sumendum; and now he says that, as the ingredients are all gone, I shan't take any more." "And pray what were the ingredients, Tom?" "Why, laxative and alterative, as suits my complaint Extract. liquor. aqua pura haustus." "And what is that?"
Haustus Pilgrim was here professionally as a nerve specialist in the treatment of hallucinations produced by neurotic conditions, you know." "A mad doctor, here!" gasped Sir Midas. "Yes. The Princess, the Chevalier, McFeckless, and even my mother were all patients of his on the dahabiyeh. He believed, don'tcherknow, in humoring them and letting them follow out their cranks, under his management.
I will marry her! Yet," he murmured softly to himself, "feefty thousand pun' is nae small sum. Aye! Not that I care for siller but feefty thousand pun'! Eh, sirs!" Dr. Haustus knew that the Chevalier had again visited the Princess, although he had kept the visit a secret, and indeed was himself invisible for a day or two afterwards.
"Yes, sir," replied Timothy, very respectfully. I took one of the measures, and putting in a little green, a little blue, and a little white liquid from the medicine bottles generally used by Mr Brookes, filled it up with water, poured the mixture into the vial, corked and labelled it, haustus statim sumendus, and handed it over the counter to the old woman.
"I should not be a good doctor if I did not," replied I. On second thoughts, I considered it advisable and safer, that the application should be external, so I translated the label to her Haustus, rub it in statim, on the throat sumendus, with the palm of the hand. "Deary me! and does it mean all that? How much have I to pay, sir?"
Haustus Pilgrim: "May we not presume, sir, that what we have just seen is not unlike that remarkable exhibition when I was pained to meet you one evening at the Alhambra?" The doctor coughed slightly. "The Alhambra ah, yes! you er refer, I presume, to Granada and the Land of the Moor, where we last met. The music and dance are both distinctly Moorish which, after all, is akin to the Egyptian.
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