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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER X
10/21

It's all he's good for then.

When money's been made, the next thing is to spend it.

Now the man who makes it has not the heart to do that." The doctor, of course, in hearing all this, said something of a tendency to comfort and console the mind of his patient.

Not that anything he could say would comfort or console the man; but that it was impossible to sit there and hear such fearful truths--for as regarded Scatcherd they were truths--without making some answer.
"This is as good as a play, isn't, doctor ?" said the baronet.

"You didn't know how I could come out like one of those actor fellows.
Well, now, come; at last I'll tell you why I have sent for you.
Before that last burst of mine I made my will." "You had a will made before that." "Yes, I had.


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