In a Glass Darkly. Volume 1/3
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Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan. In a Glass Darkly. Volume 1/3
GREEN TEA
PROLOGUE. MARTIN HESSELIUS, THE GERMAN PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER I. DR. HESSELIUS RELATES HOW HE MET THE REV. MR. JENNINGS
CHAPTER II. THE DOCTOR QUESTIONS LADY MARY, AND SHE ANSWERS
CHAPTER III. DR. HESSELIUS PICKS UP SOMETHING IN LATIN BOOKS
CHAPTER IV. FOUR EYES WERE READING THE PASSAGE
CHAPTER V. DOCTOR HESSELIUS IS SUMMONED TO RICHMOND
CHAPTER VI. HOW MR. JENNINGS MET HIS COMPANION
CHAPTER VII. THE JOURNEY: FIRST STAGE
CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND STAGE
CHAPTER IX. THE THIRD STAGE
CHAPTER X. HOME
CONCLUSION. A WORD FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER
THE FAMILIAR
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. FOOT-STEPS
CHAPTER II. THE WATCHER
CHAPTER III. AN ADVERTISEMENT
CHAPTER IV. HE TALKS WITH A CLERGYMAN
CHAPTER V. MR. BARTON STATES HIS CASE
CHAPTER VI. SEEN AGAIN
CHAPTER VII. FLIGHT
CHAPTER VIII. SOFTENED
CHAPTER IX. REQUIESCAT
MR. JUSTICE HARBOTTLE
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. THE JUDGE'S HOUSE
CHAPTER II. MR. PETERS
CHAPTER III. LEWIS PYNEWECK
CHAPTER IV. INTERRUPTION IN COURT
CHAPTER V. CALEB SEARCHER
CHAPTER VI. ARRESTED
CHAPTER VII. CHIEF JUSTICE TWOFOLD
CHAPTER VIII. SOMEBODY HAS GOT INTO THE HOUSE
CHAPTER IX. THE JUDGE LEAVES HIS HOUSE
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Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom been twelve months together in the same place.
In my wanderings I became acquainted with Dr. Martin Hesselius, a wanderer like myself, like me a physician, and like me an enthusiast in his profession. Unlike me in this, that his wanderings were voluntary, and he a man, if not of fortune, as we estimate fortune in England, at least in what our forefathers used to term "easy circumstances." He was an old man when I first saw him; nearly five-and-thirty years my senior.
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This courteous man, gentle, shy, plainly a man of thought and reading, who moving and talking among us, was not altogether of us, and whom I already suspected of leading a life whose transactions and alarms were carefully concealed, with an impenetrable reserve from, not only the world, but his best beloved friends – was cautiously weighing in his own mind the idea of taking a certain step with regard to me.
I penetrated his thoughts without his being aware of it, and was careful to say nothing which could betray to his sensitive vigilance my suspicions respecting his position, or my surmises about his plans respecting myself.
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