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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER I
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The four next faded and died one after another--all in the same sad year--and were laid in the neat, new cemetery at Torquay.

Then came a pair, born at one birth, weak, delicate, frail little flowers, with dark hair and dark eyes, and thin, long, pale faces, with long, bony hands, and long bony feet, whom men looked on as fated to follow their sisters with quick steps.

Hitherto, however, they had not followed them, nor had they suffered as their sisters had suffered; and some people at Greshamsbury attributed this to the fact that a change had been made in the family medical practitioner.
Then came the youngest of the flock, she whose birth we have said was not heralded with loud joy; for when she came into the world, four others, with pale temples, wan, worn cheeks, and skeleton, white arms, were awaiting permission to leave it.
Such was the family when, in the year 1854, the eldest son came of age.

He had been educated at Harrow, and was now still at Cambridge; but, of course, on such a day as this he was at home.

That coming of age must be a delightful time to a young man born to inherit broad acres and wide wealth.


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