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Christie Johnstone

CHAPTER I
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He was one of those globules of human quicksilver one sees now and then for two seconds; they are, in fact, two globules; their head is one, invariably bald, round, and glittering; the body is another in activity and shape, _totus teres atque rotundus;_ and in fifty years they live five centuries.

_Horum Rex Aberford_--of these our doctor was the chief.

He had hardly torn off one glove, and rolled as far as the third flower from the door on his lordship's carpet, before he shouted: "This is my patient, lolloping in pursuit of health.

Your hand," added he.

For he was at the sofa long before his lordship could glide off it.
"Tongue.


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