I am quite clear in the head now, Mary; so you may leave me with the doctor." Mrs.Heatherstone left the room-rather unwillingly, as I thought--and I sat down by the bedside to listen to anything which my patient might have to communicate.
"I want you to examine my liver," he said when the door was closed.

"I used to have an abscess there, and Brodie, the staff-surgeon, said that it was ten to one that it would carry me off.

I have not felt much of it since I left the East.

This is where it used to be, just under the angle of the ribs." "I can find the place," said I, after making a careful examination; "but I am happy to tell you that the abscess has either been entirely absorbed, or has turned calcareous, as these solitary abscesses will.
There is no fear of its doing you any harm now." He seemed to be by no means overjoyed at the intelligence.
"Things always happen so with me," he said moodily.

"Now, if another fellow was feverish and delirious he would surely be in some danger, and yet you will tell me that I am in none.