RELATING AMONG OTHER THINGS HOW DOCTOR TOOLE WALKED UP TO THE TILED HOUSE; AND OF HIS PLEASANT DISCOURSE WITH MR.

MERVYN.
Dr.Sturk's spirits and temper had not become more pleasant lately.

In fact he brooded more, and was more savage at home than was at all agreeable.

He used to go into town oftener, and to stay there later; and his language about Toole and Nutter, when there was none but submissive little Mrs.Sturk by, was more fierce and coarse than ever.

To hear him, then, one would have supposed that they were actually plotting to make away with him, and that in self-defence he must smite them hip and thigh.