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Updated: June 19, 2025
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?" Elizabeth sprang out of the chair and began to walk about in the office. She walked as Doctor Reefy thought he had never seen anyone walk before. To her whole body there was a swing, a rhythm that intoxicated him.
The feeling that the body before him was alive, that in another moment a lovely woman would spring out of the bed and confront him, became so overpowering that he could not bear the suspense. Again and again he put out his hand. Once he touched and half lifted the white sheet that covered her, but his courage failed and he, like Doctor Reefy, turned and went out of the room.
"Devil confound your civility," internally murmured I. The captain twigged, and smiled. Upon which little Reefy stole up to me "Lord, Mr Cringle, could you but get me leave to go, it would be such a" "Hold your tongue, boy, how can I"
Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper.
The condition that had brought her to him passed in an illness, but she was like one who has discovered the sweetness of the twisted apples, she could not get her mind fixed again upon the round perfect fruit that is eaten in the city apartments. In the fall after the beginning of her acquaintanceship with him she married Doctor Reefy and in the following spring she died.
"Then, Mr Reefpoint, will you have the great kindness to cast off your sink, and hook that splendid fellow by the tail only through the gristle don't prick him in the flesh and let him meander about till half past two?" Reefy was half inclined to be angry at the idea of his Majesty's officer being converted into a cook's mate.
With a loud bang he threw an empty box on the pile of rubbish in the hallway and then went heavily down the stairs. Elizabeth followed him almost immediately. The thing that had come to life in her as she talked to her one friend died suddenly. She was hysterical, as was also Doctor Reefy, and did not want to continue the talk.
On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts. One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.
"Oh," said little Reefy, "the doctor was not on the mule in crossing no, no, Captain, I knew better I had him in tow, sir; but after we crossed he was so faint and chill, that I had to lash myself to him to keep him from sliding over the animal's counter, and walk he could not." "But, Master Reefpoint, why came you back? did I not desire you to remain on board of the Firebrand, sir?"
"Yo, ho!" sung out little Reefy; "don't be frightened, ladies Lord love ye, I am half drowned, and the doctor here is altogether so quite entirely drowned, I assure you. I say, Medico, an't it true?" And the little Irish rogue slewed his head round, and gave the exhausted doctor a most comical look. "Not quite," quoth the doctor, "but deuced near it.
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