[Mr. Fortescue by William Westall]@TWC D-Link bookMr. Fortescue CHAPTER III 13/15
But let us change the subject; we have talked quite enough about myself.
I want to talk about you." A very few minutes sufficed to put Mr.Fortescue in possession of all the information he desired.
He already knew something about me, and as I had nothing to conceal, I answered all his questions without reserve. "Don't you think you are rather wasting your life ?" he asked, after I had answered the last of them. "I am enjoying it." "Very likely.
People generally do enjoy life when they are young.
Hunting is all very well as an amusement, but to have no other object in life seems--what shall we say ?--just a little frivolous, don't you think ?" "Well, perhaps it does; but I mean, after a while, to buy a practice and settle down." "But in the mean time your medical knowledge must be growing rather rusty. I have heard physicians say that it is only after they have obtained their degree that they begin to learn their profession.
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