'It certainly is alarming to see him driving home from Rotherby, flogging his galloping horse like a madman.

My brother has often said he expected every Thursday evening to be called in to set some of Dempster's bones; but I suppose he may drop that expectation now, for we are given to understand from good authority that he has forbidden his wife to call my brother in again either to herself or her mother.

He swears no Tryanite doctor shall attend his family.

I have reason to believe that Pilgrim was called in to Mrs.Dempster's mother the other day.' 'Poor Mrs.Raynor! she's glad to do anything for the sake of peace and quietness,' said Mrs.Pettifer; 'but it's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.' 'What trouble that poor woman has to bear in her old age!' said Mary Linnet, 'to see her daughter leading such a life!--an only daughter, too, that she doats on.' 'Yes, indeed,' said Miss Pratt.

'We, of course, know more about it than most people, my brother having attended the family so many years.