46/50 If I should happen to be absent, Mrs.Gamp is all that you could desire. If not to-day, it will certainly be to-morrow,'-- and so the medical gentleman went his way. On that morrow he would be twenty-six. Some one brought him a mutton chop, but it was raw and he could not eat; he went to the sideboard and prepared to make himself a glass of negus, but the water was all cold. His water at least was cold, though Mrs.Gamp's was hot enough. |