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She wrote, announcing her intended change of condition, and regretting that Dr Plausible's affairs, requiring his immediate presence in England, would prevent her having the delight of embracing one, who was so entwined round her heart.
The two last fees he had received were sacrificed to have the party announced in the Morning Post, and Doctor Feasible's triumph was complete. But it was not to last long. In ten days Dr Plausible's cards were again issued, larger than Doctor Feasible's, and with a handsome embossed border of lilies and roses.
Plausible, one of the Castleton members, insists upon telling me why his conscience will not let him vote with Trevanion!" "Three o'clock?" "Three! just the hour at which I am to see the secretary of the Treasury, who has promised to relieve Mr. Plausible's conscience! But come and dine with me, you will meet the executors to the will!"
The two last fees he had received were sacrificed to have the party announced in the Morning Post, and Doctor Feasible's triumph was complete. But it was not to last long. In ten days Dr Plausible's cards were again issued, larger than Dr Feasible's, and with a handsome embossed border of lilies and roses.
At last Doctor Plausible's instruments were used in good earnest; and, although not known or even heard of in the fashionable world, he was sent for by the would-be fashionables, because they imagined that he was employed by their betters. Now it so happened that in the same street there lived another medical man, almost a prototype of Doctor Plausible, only not quite so well off in the world.
She wrote, announcing her intended change of condition, and regretting that Dr Plausible's affairs, requiring his immediate presence in England, would prevent her having the delight of embracing one, who was so entwined round her heart.
Plausible, one of the Castleton members, insists upon telling me why his conscience will not let him vote with Trevanion!" "Three o'clock?" "Three! just the hour at which I am to see the secretary of the Treasury, who has promised to relieve Mr. Plausible's conscience! But come and dine with me, you will meet the executors to the will!"
You saw how I handled that shallow politician at my Lady Plausible's the other day. The same method I practise upon the crazed Tory, the bigot Whig, the sour, supercilious pedant, the petulant critic, the blustering coward, the fawning fool, the pert imp, sly sharper, and every other species of knaves and fools, with which this kingdom abounds.
At last, Doctor Plausible's instruments were used in good earnest; and, although not known or even heard of in the fashionable world, he was sent for by the would-be-fashionables, because they imagined that he was employed by their betters. Now it so happened that in the same street there lived another medical man, almost a prototype of Doctor Plausible, only not quite so well off in the world.
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