Accordingly, it is by my advice that Dr.Lloyd has taken Abbots' House; the rent would be too high for his means if the Hill did not feel bound in honour to justify the trust he has placed in its patronage.

I told him that all my friends, when they were in want of a doctor, would send for him; those who are my friends will do so.

What the Hill does, plenty of common people down there will do also,--so that question is settled!" And it was settled.
Dr.Lloyd, thus taken by the hand, soon extended the range of his visits beyond the Hill, which was not precisely a mountain of gold to doctors, and shared with myself, though in a comparatively small degree, the much more lucrative practice of Low Town.
I had no cause to grudge his success, nor did I.But to my theories of medicine his diagnosis was shallow, and his prescriptions obsolete.

When we were summoned to a joint consultation, our views as to the proper course of treatment seldom agreed.

Doubtless he thought I ought to have deferred to his seniority in years; but I held the doctrine which youth deems a truth and age a paradox,--namely, that in science the young men are the practical elders, inasmuch as they are schooled in the latest experiences science has gathered up, while their seniors are cramped by the dogmas they were schooled to believe when the world was some decades the younger.
Meanwhile my reputation continued rapidly to advance; it became more than local; my advice was sought even by patients from the metropolis.
That ambition, which, conceived in early youth, had decided my career and sweetened all its labours,--the ambition to take a rank and leave a name as one of the great pathologists to whom humanity accords a grateful, if calm, renown,--saw before it a level field and a certain goal.
I know not whether a success far beyond that usually attained at the age I had reached served to increase, but it seemed to myself to justify, the main characteristic of my moral organization,--intellectual pride.
Though mild and gentle to the sufferers under my care, as a necessary element of professional duty, I was intolerant of contradiction from those who belonged to my calling, or even from those who, in general opinion, opposed my favourite theories.