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Paul Faber, Surgeon

CHAPTER XVI
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I am sure they will agree with me.

But let us try, and then the money I owe Mr.Jones, will not any longer hang like a millstone about my neck." "We will begin this very day," said Dorothy, delighted to see her father restored to equanimity.

"I will go and see after a dinner of herbs .-- We shall have love with it anyhow, father!" she added, kissing him.
That day the minister, who in his earlier days had been allowed by his best friends to be a little particular about his food, and had been no mean connoisseur in wines, found more pleasure at his table, from lightness of heart, and the joy of a new independence, than he had had for many a day.

It added much also to his satisfaction with the experiment, that, instead of sleeping, as his custom was, after dinner, he was able to read without drowsiness even.

Perhaps Dorothy's experience was not quite so satisfactory, for she looked weary when they sat down to tea..


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