I will only say that any man but a doctor would have run out of the room, the moment he entered it.

To save the poor creature was impossible.

For a few days longer, I could keep pain in subjection, and could make death easy when it came.
"At my next visit he was able to speak.
"I discovered that he was a member of my own profession--a mulatto from the Southern States of America, by birth.

The one fatal event of his life had been his marriage.

Every worst offence of which a bad woman can be guilty, his vile wife had committed--and his infatuated love clung to her through it all.