In White Raiment
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Le Queux William. In White Raiment
Prologue
Chapter One. Mainly about People
Chapter Two. The Third Finger
Chapter Three. Concerning a Compact
Chapter Four. The Note of Interrogation
Chapter Five. Outward Bound
Chapter Six. Captain Banfield Explains
Chapter Seven. My New Patient
Chapter Eight. What Happened to me
Chapter Nine. A Maze of Mystery
Chapter Ten. The Major
Chapter Eleven. Voices of the Night
Chapter Twelve. The Morning After
Chapter Thirteen. I Practise a New Profession
Chapter Fourteen. A Theory
Chapter Fifteen. The Grey House
Chapter Sixteen. The Veiled Lady
Chapter Seventeen. In Peril
Chapter Eighteen. The Mystery of the Morning-Room
Chapter Nineteen. Hoefer’s Strange Methods
Chapter Twenty. The Chill Hand
Chapter Twenty One. Two Hearts
Chapter Twenty Two. A Savant at Home
Chapter Twenty Three. A Counter-Plot
Chapter Twenty Four. Face to Face
Chapter Twenty Five. The Woman in Black
Chapter Twenty Six. Husband and Wife
Chapter Twenty Seven. The Tempter
Chapter Twenty Eight. Sought Out
Chapter Twenty Nine. Put to the Test
Chapter Thirty “La Gioia.”
Chapter Thirty One. Conclusion
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My worst enemy – and, alas! I have many – would not accuse me of being of a romantic disposition.
In the profession of medicine any romance, acquired in one’s youth or college days, is quickly knocked out of one by the first term at the hospital. The medical student quickly becomes, in a manner, callous to human suffering, and by the time he obtains his degree he is generally a shrewd and sympathetic observer, but with every spark of romance crushed dead within his heart. Thus, there is no bachelor more confirmed than the celibate doctor.
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And thus I became the locum tenens of the not too extensive practice of Robert Raymond, surgeon, for he departed for Paddington on the following evening, and I entered upon my somewhat lonely duties.
The first couple of days passed without incident. I visited the two children with the croup, looked in upon the bedridden relict of a bibulous furniture-dealer, and examined the stomach with the perpetual pain. The latter proved a much more serious case than I had supposed, and from the first I saw that the poor fellow was suffering from an incurable disease. My visits only took an hour, and the rest of the day I spent in the little den upstairs, smoking furiously and reading.
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