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The Firm of Girdlestone

CHAPTER VI
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I told your landlady that I hardly liked to come up for fear of disturbing you at your work.

You go up for your first professional in a few weeks, I understand ?" "That will be all right, dad," said his son demurely.

"Garraway and I usually take a little exercise of this sort as a preliminary to the labours of the day.

Try this armchair and have a cigarette." The doctor's eye fell upon the medical works and the disarticulated skull, and his ill-humour departed.
"You have your tools close at hand, I see," he remarked.
"Yes, dad, all ready." "Those bones bring back old memories to me.

I am rusty in my anatomy, but I dare say I could stump you yet.


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