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That afternoon he went across, and was told that his brother would see him at three o'clock the next day. Then he interrogated Mrs. Walker as to his brother's condition. Mrs. Walker knew nothing about it, except that the Marquis lay in bed during the most of his time, and that Dr. Pullbody was there every day. Now Dr.
"Then let me tell you that it takes deuced little to make you glad." The beginning was not auspicious, and further progress in conversation seemed to be difficult. "They told me yesterday that Dr. Pullbody was attending you." "He has this moment left me. I don't in the least believe in him. Your London doctors are such conceited asses that you can't speak to them?
De Baron and Guss Mildmay had been playing bagatelle, or flirting in the back drawing-room, and after a word or two returned to their game. "Ill is he?" said Mrs. Houghton, speaking of the Marquis, "I suppose he has never recovered from that terrible blow." "I have not seen him yet, but I am told that Dr. Pullbody is with him." "What a tragedy, if anything should happen!
Name of Pullbody." "Pullbody," repeated Mr. Lavender dreamily; "I don't seem Ask her in, Mrs. Petty, ask her in." "It's on your head, sir," said Mrs. Petty, and went out. Mr. Lavender was immediately conscious of a presence in dark green silk, with a long upper lip, a loose lower lip, and a fixed and faintly raddled air, moving stealthily towards him. "Sit down, madam, I beg.
I didn't send for him any more." "Sir James Bolton has a great reputation." "No doubt. I daresay he could cut off my leg if I asked him, and would then have handed out two pounds eighteen with the same indifference." "I suppose your back is better?" "No, it isn't, not a bit. It gets worse and worse." "What does Dr. Pullbody say?" "Nothing that anybody can understand.
Pullbody was an eminent physician, and had the Marquis been dying from an injury in his back an eminent surgeon would have been required. Lord George dined at his club on a mutton chop and a half a pint of sherry, and then found himself terribly dull. What could he do with himself? Whither could he betake himself? So he walked across Piccadilly and went to the old house in Berkeley Square.
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