[A Strange Story<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
A Strange Story
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CHAPTER VIII
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The old man discovered the hat before I did, stooped, took it up, extended it to me with the profound bow of the old school, while the other hand, clenched and quivering, was pressed into the hollow of his cheek, and his eyes met mine with wistful mute entreaty.

The instinct of my profession seized me at once.

I could never behold suffering without forgetting all else in the desire to relieve it.
"You are in pain," said I, softly.

"Sit down and describe the symptoms.
Here, it is true, I am no professional doctor, but I am a friend who is fond of doctoring, and knows something about it." So we sat down a little apart from the other guests, and after a few questions and answers, I was pleased to find that his "tic" did not belong to the less curable kind of that agonizing neuralgia.

I was especially successful in my treatment of similar sufferings, for which I had discovered an anodyne that was almost specific.


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