Excerpt: ...this manner, and it suits our constitution." "A fiddle on your constitution! How can you tell what agrees with your constitution unless you try? You own you are not well; you are subject to headaches; and every physician will tell you that a tilting motion disorders the stomach and acts upon the brain. Ask old Dr. Kite. I was talking with him about your case only yesterday, and says he, 'Mrs. Magpie, I perfectly agree with you.'" "But my husband prefers this style of building." "That's only because he isn't ...
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Excerpt: ...this manner, and it suits our constitution." "A fiddle on your constitution! How can you tell what agrees with your constitution unless you try? You own you are not well; you are subject to headaches; and every physician will tell you that a tilting motion disorders the stomach and acts upon the brain. Ask old Dr. Kite. I was talking with him about your case only yesterday, and says he, 'Mrs. Magpie, I perfectly agree with you.'" "But my husband prefers this style of building." "That's only because he isn't properly instructed. Pray, did you ever attend Dr. Kite's lectures on the nervous system?" "No, I have no time to attend lectures. Who would sit on the eggs?" "Why, your husband, to be sure; don't he take his turn in sitting? If he don't, he ought to. I shall speak to him about it. My husband always sits regularly half the time, that I may have time to go about and exercise." "O Mrs. Magpie, pray don't speak to my husband; he will think I've been complaining." "No, no, he won't. Let me alone. I understand just how to say the thing. I've advised hundreds of young husbands in my day, and I never gave offence." "But I tell you, Mrs. Magpie, I don't want any interference between my husband and me, and I will not have it," says Mrs. Oriole, with her little round eyes flashing with indignation. "Don't put yourself in a passion, my dear; the more you talk, the more sure I am that your nervous system is running down, or you wouldn't forget good manners in this way. You'd better take my advice, for I understand just what to do,"-and away sails Mother Magpie; and presently young Oriole comes home all in a flutter. "I say, my dear, if you will persist in gossiping over our private family matters with that old Mother Magpie-" "My dear, I don't gossip. She comes and bores me to death with talking, and then goes off and mistakes what she has been saying for what I said." "But you must CUT her." "I try to, all I can; but she won't BE cut." "It's enough to...
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