His medical brethren whom he consulted all doubted the propriety of taking any measures for the removal of the tumor, in the particular condition and situation of it when they were called in.

Your uncle alone differed with them.

He was too modest a man to say so, but your mother found it out.

The deformity of her beautiful child horrified her.

She was desperate enough to catch at the faintest hope of remedying it that anyone might hold out to her; and she persuaded your uncle to put his opinion to the proof.