I called the day before yesterday, after you were here at our last Board Meeting.' 'The Themison ?' 'The great Dr.Themison; who kills you kindlier than most, and is much in request for it.' 'There's one of your echoes of Colney!' Victor cried.

'One gets dead sick of that worn-out old jibeing at doctors.

They don't kill, you know very well.

It 's not to their interest to kill.

They may take the relish out of life; and upon my word, I believe that helps to keep the patient living!' Fenellan sent an eye of discreet comic penetration travelling through his friend.
'The City's mending; it's not the weary widow woman of the day when we capsized the diurnal with your royal Old Veuve,' he said, as they trod the pavement.