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Sturk felt as if she must scream, and her heart beat at a gallop, and her dry, white lips silently called upon her Maker for help, and she felt quite wild, and very faint; and heard them speak brief, and low together, and then another long silence; and then a loud voice, in a sort of shriek, cry out that name holy and awful which we do not mix in tales like this.
'I p-pity you, Sir, and 'pity' shot like a pellet from his lips. 'Why the deuce will you dabble in medicine, Sir? Do you think it's a thing to be learnt in an afternoon out of the bottom of an old cookery-book? 'Cookery-book! excuse me, Dr. Sturk, replied Puddock offended. 'I'm given to underthtand, Sir, it's to be found in Culpepper. 'Culpepper! said Sturk, viciously.
Sturk heard of it for some time. But the surgeon was wide awake, and all alive about it, whatever it was.
One of the fellows was smoking, and Sturk snatched the pipe from his mouth, and stamped it to atoms on the floor, roaring at them to know what the brought them there; and without a pause for an answer, thundered, 'And I suppose you'll not let me take my box of instruments out of the house mind, it's worth fifty pounds; and curse me, if one of our men dies for want of them in hospital, I'll indict you both, and your employer along with you, for murder! And so he railed on, till his voice failed him with a sort of choking, and there was a humming in his ears, and a sort of numbness in his head, and he thought he was going to have a fit; and then up the stairs he went again, and into his study, and resolved to have Nutter out and it flashed upon him that he'd say, 'Pay the rent first; and then what next? why he'd post him all over Dublin, and Chapelizod, and Leixlip, where the Lord Lieutenant and Court were.
Sturk, leaning at the window with his shoulders to the wall, beckoned Puddock gruffly, and cross-examined him in an undertone as to the issue of O'Flaherty's case.
You'll find he'll oust Nutter at last, and get the agency; that's what he's driving at always undermining somebody. Doctor Sturk and Lord Castlemallard were talking apart on the high ground, and the artillery surgeon was pointing with his cane at distant objects. 'I'll lay you fifty he's picking holes in Nutter's management this moment.
The points were, that Sturk was restored to speech by the determined interposition of the prisoner at the bar, an unlikely thing if he was ruining himself thereby!
Indeed, she was a very harmless, and rather sweet, though dolorous little body, and was very fond of children, especially her own, who would have been ruined were it not that they quailed as much as she did before Sturk, on whom she looked as by far the cleverest and most awful mortal then extant, and never doubted that the world thought so too.
Perhaps he would not have cared if this expression of his good will had got round to my lord. The result was, however, that their prisoner was to be first tried in Ireland for the murder of Doctor Barnabas Sturk. A few pieces of evidence, slight, but sinister, also turned up.
'Archer the villain Charles Archer. 'Give me the cup with the claret and water, and the spoon there it is, said Dillon's rough bass tones. And she heard the maid's step crossing the floor, and then there was a groan from Sturk. 'Here, take another spoonful, and don't mind talking for a while. It's doing mighty well. There, don't let him slip over that's enough.
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