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"But so we sent one of them to Barby's old mother, for Christmas." "Poor Dr. Quackenboss!" said Fleda. "That man has as near as possible killed me two or three times. As for the others, they are certainly the oddest of all the finny tribes. I must go out and see Barby for a minute." It was a good many minutes, however, before she could get free to do any such thing.
"No trouble indeed, Sir, I assure you, I should esteem it a favour very highly. I I am Dr. Quackenboss, Sir; you may have heard " "Thank you, Dr. Quackenboss, but we have no time this afternoon we are very anxious to reach home as soon as possible, if you would be so good as to put us in the way."
Fleda dared not look up while the introductions were passing of "the Rev. Mr. Olmney," and of "Dr. Quackenboss," the former of whom Mr. Carleton took cordially by the hand, while Dr. Quackenboss, conceiving that his hand must be as acceptable, made his salutations with an indescribable air, at once of attempted gracefulness and ingratiation.
He wrote me such a letter at the end of his last trick here, positively here, in America." And he proceeded to give his own version of the Quackenboss incident, enlivened with sundry imaginative bursts of pure Vandrift fancy. When Charles spoke of Mrs. Quackenboss the poet smiled.
Quackenboss was not the person to give them the needed spring; his long-winded complimentary speeches had not interest enough even to divert her. She felt that she was entering upon an untried and most weighty undertaking; charging her time and thoughts with a burthen they could well spare.
"Hard to pull a man's name to pieces before his face, ha, ha! but I am a not one thing myself, a kind of heterogynous I am a piece of a physician and a little in the agricultural line also; so it's all fair." "The Irish treat my name as hardly, Dr. Quackenboss they call me nothing but Miss Ring-again." And then Fleda could laugh, and laugh she did, so heartily that the doctor was delighted.
Quackenboss? I am obliged to go out." The doctor professed his great willingness, adding that he had only come down to the city to do two or three chores, and thought she might perhaps like to take the opportunity which would afford him such very great gratification. "No, indeed, faire Una," said Dr. Gregory, when they were on their way to Mrs.
In United States currency, seven thousand five hundred." "I guess Elihu would just jump at it," Mrs. Quackenboss replied, looking at him quizzically. The doctor laughed. "You make a good bid, sir," he said, in his slow American way, emphasising all the most unimportant words: "But you overlook one element. I am a man of science, not a speculator.
He had invented a cork-screw which brought him in a small revenue; and he was now engaged in the translation of a Polish work on the "Application of Hydrocyanic Acid to the Cure of Leprosy." Still, we reached New York without having got any nearer our goal, as regarded Dr. Quackenboss. He came to bid us good-bye at the quay, with that sphinx-like smile still playing upon his features.
Thorn is inquiring after Apollo will you set him right, while I do the same for the tablecloth?" Her uncle looked from her sparkling eyes to the rather puzzled expression of his guest's face. "I was only asking your lovely niece," said Mr. Thorn coming down from his stilts, "how you liked this country life?" Dr. Quackenboss bowed, probably in approbation of the epithet.
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