2/26 Her mind was utterly incapable of the faculties of selection and discrimination. She applied one formula, unmodified, to all mankind. Will you walk in ?" The girl, moving with a weak, shuffling toddle, like a child, led Jerome through the length of the entry to a great room on the north side of the house, which was the doctor's study and office. Two large cupboards, whose doors were set with glass in diamond panes in the upper panels, held his drugs and nostrums. Books, mostly ponderous volumes in rusty leather, lined the rest of the wall space. |