[Doctor Therne by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Therne CHAPTER IV 17/18
I don't know whether he infected the lady or whether he didn't, but I do know, that like most of the poisoning calf-worshipping crowd who call themselves Vaccinators, this Bell is a liar, and that if he did, it wasn't his fault because it was God's will that she should die, and he'd a been wrong to try and interfere with Him.
So name your sum and I'll stand the shot." All of this tirade had been said, or rather shouted, in a strident voice and in utter defiance of the repeated orders of the chairman that he should be silent.
Mr.Stephen Strong was not a person very amenable to authority.
Now, however, when he had finished his say he not only filled in the bail bond but offered to hand up a cheque for 500 pounds then and there. When it was over I thanked him, but he only answered:-- "Don't you thank me.
I do it because I will not see folk locked up for this sort of nonsense about diseases and the like, as though the Almighty who made us don't know when to send sickness and when to keep it away, when to make us live and when to make us die.
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