"You seldom favour us with your company, my dear, so early in the evening! Are there fewer patients in want of your advice than usual ?" "You are mistaken, Arabella.

I am here in the performance of a painful duty." The doctor's language, and the doctor's manner, presented him to Iris in a character that was new to her.

What effect had he produced on Mrs.
Vimpany?
That excellent friend to travellers in distress lowered her eyes to the floor, and modestly preserved silence.

Mr.Vimpany proceeded to the performance of his duty; his painful responsibility seemed to strike him at first from a medical point of view.
"If there is a poison which undermines the sources of life," he remarked, "it is alcohol.

If there is a vice that degrades humanity, it is intoxication.