CHAPTER IX.
During this period, the most remarkable things that happened to Dr.and Mrs.Staines were really those which I have related as connecting them with Phoebe Dale and her brother; to which I will now add that Dr.
Staines detailed Dick's case in a remarkable paper, entitled "Oedema of the Glottis," and showed how the patient had been brought back from the grave by tracheotomy and artificial respiration.

He received a high price for this article.
To tell the truth, he was careful not to admit that it was he who had opened the windpipe; so the credit of the whole operation was given to Mr.Jenkyn; and this gentleman was naturally pleased, and threw a good many consultation fees in Staines's way.
The Lucases, to his great comfort--for he had an instinctive aversion to Miss Lucas--left London for Paris in August, and did not return all the year.
In February he reviewed his year's work and twelve months' residence in the Bijou.

The pecuniary result was, outgoings, nine hundred and fifty pounds; income, from fees, two hundred and eighty pounds; writing, ninety pounds.
He showed these figures to Mrs.Staines, and asked her if she could suggest any diminution of expenditure.

Could she do with less housekeeping money?
"Oh, impossible! You cannot think how the servants eat; and they won't touch our home-made bread." "The fools! Why ?" "Oh, because they think it costs us less.

Servants seem to me always to hate the people whose bread they eat." "More likely it is their vanity.