health-rate

Updated: May 26, 2025

Not for the first time he found himself in the doctor's awkward quandary: how to be decently and humanly glad of a rise in the health-rate. He had often regretted having held to the half-hundred shares he had bought at Henry Ocock's suggestion; had often spent in fancy the sum they would have brought in, had he sold when they touched their highest figure.

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix