This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ..."Come in." The instant I stood in the passage, the front door was banged behind me by the tall, powerful-looking fellow--middle-aged man--who had let me in. "Where's my patient?" I asked sharply. "Here--/am." "Oh?" "Yes, sir. Just come inside this room, and I'll tell you all about it. I singled you out because they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ..."Come in." The instant I stood in the passage, the front door was banged behind me by the tall, powerful-looking fellow--middle-aged man--who had let me in. "Where's my patient?" I asked sharply. "Here--/am." "Oh?" "Yes, sir. Just come inside this room, and I'll tell you all about it. I singled you out because they said you were a new 'un, and I thought maybe the others would be too busy to attend to such an extra long case. I sent a boy with a note. There's nobody else in the house, so you needn't be afraid. Come in this room, I tell you." "Extra long case" had sounded like music in my ears--but "nobody in the house--don't be afraid," and the peremptory tone in which the fellow told me to "come in "--well, all this was, to say the least, peculiar. Inside the room, he motioned me to a seat, and sat himself opposite to me. I was about to start in an orthodox way, when my patient interrupted me. "/will speak first, if you please, doctor." This was said very nicely, and even in a deferential tone. I assumed my most professional air, and "my first patient" began. "I need not bargain that what passes between us is, in the strictest sense, confidential?" I bowed. "I have no doubt but that the real source of all the mischief, the origin of all my present trouble and difficulty, might be successfully sought in the signs of the Zodiac. Those signs are all wrong. They are cock-eyed, sir. Cock-eyed, cock-tailed, cock-headed, cock-souled, cock-hearted, cock-jawed, cock-footed, cock-kneed. Don't you contradict me, sir, you cock-eyed son of a marlingspike!" I felt my hair was rising all over my head. "Answer this question. Is it a man's duty to pro...
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