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The Guilty River

CHAPTER IX
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As I think, he was so unwise as to let a plausible young surgeon set the broken bone.

Anyway, the end of it is that my lord slightly limps when he walks; and pray remember that he hates to see it noticed.

Lady Rachel doesn't agree with me in attributing her father's lameness to his surgeon's want of experience.

Between ourselves, the man seems to have interested her.

Very handsome, very clever, very agreeable, and the manners of a gentleman.
When his medical services came to an end, he was quite an acquisition at their parties in London--with one drawback: he mysteriously disappeared, and has never been heard of since.


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