So the war went on, and our doctor, to a certain extent, became a noted character.
He had, moreover, other difficulties to encounter in his professional career.

It was something in his favour that he understood his business; something that he was willing to labour at it with energy; and resolved to labour at it conscientiously.

He had also other gifts, such as conversational brilliancy, an aptitude for true good fellowship, firmness in friendship, and general honesty of disposition, which stood him in stead as he advanced in life.

But, at his first starting, much that belonged to himself personally was against him.

Let him enter what house he would, he entered it with a conviction, often expressed to himself, that he was equal as a man to the proprietor, equal as a human being to the proprietress.