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There was a man at the door of the Salmon House, who, with a taciturn and saturnine excitement, watched the unusual bustle going on at the door-steps of Doctor Sturk's dwelling.
The light from Sturk's bed-room window, and the red glare of the footman's torch, made two little trembling reflections in the silver spectacles as he stood in the shade, peering movelessly over their shoulders. ''Tis a sorry business, gentlemen, he said in a stern, subdued tone. 'Seven children and a widow.
'And, Sir, said Lowe, 'if you please, I'll get this statement into the shape of a deposition or information, for you see 'tis of the vastest imaginable importance, and exactly tallies with evidence we've got elsewhere, and 'twouldn't do, Sir, to let it slip. And Toole thought he saw a little flush mount into Sturk's sunken face, and he hastened to say 'What we desire, Dr.
'Oh, no nothing like quite nice and cool, doctor and no fever; nice quiet sleep; and his appetite wonderful; tell him, Doctor Toole. 'Oh, yes, Ma'am Doctor Pell knows; I told him all, Ma'am, said Toole, who was looking with a blank and dismal sort of contemplation upon Sturk's fallen countenance. Good-day, Sir. Your most obedient, Ma'am.
But there was no responsive sunshine upon Sturk's stern; haggard face, as he said very low still looking on the foot-board 'I thank you, doctor. So after a few more questions, and a little bit of talk with Mrs. Sturk, they got that good lady out of the room, and said Lowe to the patient 'I'm sorry to trouble you, Dr. Sturk, but there's a weighty matter at which you last night hinted; and Dr.
And he put his hand under the clothes, and laid it on Sturk's arm, and slid it down to his hand, and felt his pulse. 'And he's been near ten minutes this way? said the doctor. 'Oh, he was a great deal worse; 'tis a vast deal better now; isn't it, Doctor Toole? 'The rigor is subsiding, then. Has he had a sweat, Ma'am? said Pell.
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