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Heart and Science

CHAPTER XII
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All I can tell you is, that his mind (when I happen to meet him) seems to be as completely absorbed as ever in brains and nerves.

But, what they can have to do with chemical experiments, secretly pursued in a lonely field, is a riddle to which I have thus far found no answer.
"Is he married ?" Carmina inquired.
The question seemed to amuse Ovid.

"If Doctor Benjulia had a wife, you think we might get at his secrets?
There is no such chance for us--he manages his domestic affairs for himself." "Hasn't he even got a housekeeper ?" "Not even a housekeeper!" While he was making that reply, he saw the doctor slowly advancing towards them.

"Excuse me for one minute," he resumed; "I will just speak to him, and come back to you." Carmina turned to Miss Minerva in surprise.
"Ovid seems to have some reason for keeping the tall man away from us," she said.

"Does he dislike Doctor Benjulia ?" But for restraining motives, the governess might have gratified her hatred of Carmina by a sharp reply.


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