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"All the profession award him the highest skill in our city, if not the whole country," said Doctor Hillhouse. "I have no doubt of his skill," replied Mr. Carlton. "But " "What?" asked the doctor, as Mr. Carlton hesitated. "Are you not aware that he uses wine too freely?" Doctor Hillhouse was taken by surprise at this intimation.
"No, no, no, Dr. Hillhouse! You must see her yourself. It is a case of life and death!" cried out the distracted husband. "The responsibility is yours, and I must and will hold you to that responsibility. I placed my wife in your charge, not in that of this or any other man." Mr. Ridley was beside himself with fear. At first Dr.
"From the commander-in-chief," said the officer, raising his hat, as he motioned his men to stand back. "Madam, permit me to present myself as Lieutenant Hillhouse of the Connecticut Rangers, and pray command my services." "Oh," gasped Betty, from the other side, "our own troops, thank Heaven!" "Truly you are a welcome arrival," said Mrs. Seymour, with a light-hearted laugh.
As soon as the door was opened a man came in hurriedly and handed him, a slip of paper on which were written these few words: "An artery has commenced bleeding. Come quickly! Doctor Hillhouse started to his feet and gave a quick order for his carriage. As it drove up to the office-door soon after, he sprang in, accompanied by Doctor Kline.
"Not quite so firm as it was twenty years ago," he remarked, with a slight depression in his voice. "But the sight is clearer and the skill greater," said Doctor Angier. "I don't know about the sight." returned Doctor Hillhouse. "I'm afraid that is no truer than the hand." "The inner sight, I mean, the perception that comes from long-applied skill," said Doctor Angier.
"That is something in which you have the advantage of younger men." Doctor Hillhouse made no reply to this, but sat like one in deep and, perplexed thought for a considerable time. "I must see Doctor Kline and go over the case with him more carefully," he remarked at length. "I shall then be able to see with more clearness what is best.
"Poor fellow!" said Dr. Hillhouse, with genuine pity. "He was always a nice boy. If anything has happened to him, I wouldn't give a dime for the life of his mother." "Nor I. And even as it is, the shock already received may prove greater than her exhausted system can bear. I think you had better see her, doctor, as early as possible."
Hillhouse said no more. On arriving at Mr. Ridley's residence, he met Dr. Angier, with whom he held a brief conference before seeing his patient. He found her in no favorable condition. The fever was not so intense as Dr. Angier had found it on his arrival, but its effect on the brain was more marked. "Too much time has been lost." Dr.
"Men who take a glass of wine at dinner and drink with a friend occasionally," remarked Doctor Hillhouse, "are not given to idleness, waste of property and abuse and neglect of their families, as we find to be the case with common drunkards. They don't fill our prisons and almshouses. Their wives and children do not go to swell the great army of beggars, paupers and criminals.
Brimming with tears, upon me, fetch'd a sigh, As from a riven heart, and cried: He's dead!" Hillhouse. Maud had been so earnest, and so much excited, that the scarcely reflected on the singularity and novelty of her situation, until she was seated, as described at the close of the last chapter.
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