It really is a professional case; he is under my charge, I may say." "What is it, boy ?" "Well, laudanum and a broken heart." "Exercise and ammonia for the first.

For the second, God's grace and the grave: and those latter medicines you can't exhibit, my dear boy.

Well, as it is professional duty, I suppose you must: but don't exceed the hour; I shall lie awake till you return, and then you must talk me to sleep." So Tom went out and homeward with Mark and Mary, for their roads lay together; and as he went, he thought good to tell them somewhat of the history of John Briggs, alias Elsley Vavasour.
"Poor fool!" said Mark, who listened in silence to the end.

"Why didn't he mind his bottles, and just do what Heaven sent him to do?
Is he in want of the rhino, Tom ?" "He had not five shillings left after he had paid his fare; and he refuses to ask his wife for a farthing." "Quite right--very proper spirit." And Mark walked on in silence a few minutes.
"I say, Tom, a fool and his money are soon parted.

There's a five-pound note for him, you begging, insinuating dog, and be hanged to you both! I shall die in the workhouse at this rate." "Oh father, you will never miss--" "Who told you I thought I should, pray?
Don't you go giving another five pounds out of your pocket-money behind my back, ma'am.