[The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hermit of Far End CHAPTER VI 4/15
I give you everything I can.
If I were only a rich man, you should have everything you want." "Perhaps if you were to work a little more intelligently you'd make more money," she retorted.
"If only you'd keep your brains for the use of people who can _pay_--and pay well--I shouldn't be deprived of every little comfort I ask for! Instead of that, you've got half the poor of Monkshaven on your hands--and if you think they can't afford to pay, you simply don't send in a bill.
Oh, _I_ know!"-- sitting up excitedly in her chair, a patch of angry scarlet staining each cheek--"I hear what goes on--even shut away from the world as I am.
It's just to curry popularity--you get all the praise, and I suffer for it! _I_ have to go without what I want--" "Oh, hush! Hush!" Selwyn tried ineffectually to stem the torrent of complaint. "No, I won't hush! It's 'Doctor Dick this,' and 'Doctor Dick that'-- oh, yes, you see, I know their name for you, these slum patients of yours!--but it's Doctor Dick's wife who really foots the bills--by going without what she needs!" "Minnie, be quiet!" Selwyn broke in sternly.
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