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THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER.
The installation of the adopted stable-boy was thus happily effected, and the wheels of life continued to run smoothly in the Doctor's house.

Jean- Marie did his horse and carriage duty in the morning; sometimes helped in the housework; sometimes walked abroad with the Doctor, to drink wisdom from the fountain-head; and was introduced at night to the sciences and the dead tongues.

He retained his singular placidity of mind and manner; he was rarely in fault; but he made only a very partial progress in his studies, and remained much of a stranger in the family.
The Doctor was a pattern of regularity.

All forenoon he worked on his great book, the 'Comparative Pharmacopoeia, or Historical Dictionary of all Medicines,' which as yet consisted principally of slips of paper and pins.