[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER FIVE: The Love Story of Mr 16/51
It's simply a matter of dropping everything and going away.
Now why don't you go for a month or two to some quiet place, where you will simply _do nothing ?_" (She never, as he knew, did anything, anyway.) "What do you say to Hot Springs, Virginia ?--absolute quiet, good golf, not a soul there, plenty of tennis." Or else he would say, "My dear madam, you're simply _worn out_.
Why don't you just drop everything and go to Canada ?--perfectly quiet, not a soul there, and, I believe, nowadays quite fashionable." Thus, after all the patients had been sent away, Dr.Slyder and his colleagues of Plutoria Avenue managed to slip away themselves for a month or two, heading straight for Paris and Vienna.
There they were able, so they said, to keep in touch with what continental doctors were doing.
They probably were. Now it so happened that both the parents of Miss Dulphemia Rasselyer-Brown had been sent out of town in this fashion.
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