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Rosa Nouchette Carey. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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"I hope you do not think I was wrong?"
DOCTOR LUTTRELL'S FIRST PATIENT
BY
ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE MISS MUFFET," "COUSIN MONA," "THE MISTRESS OF BRAE FARM," "ESTHER," ETC
PHILADELPHIA. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. 1900
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
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"I hope you do not think I am wrong?" … Frontispiece
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
CHAPTER I
AT THE CORNER HOUSE
"Oh, Marcus, how happy we are!"
CHAPTER II
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
CHAPTER III
AUNT MADGE
CHAPTER IV
DR. LUTTRELL'S FIRST PATIENT
CHAPTER V
A VISIT TO GALVASTON HOUSE
"Olive, look what Mr. Gaythorne has given me."
CHAPTER VI
"I REMIND YOU OF SOMEONE?"
CHAPTER VII
BLOWING BUBBLES
CHAPTER VIII
"'TIS A LOVE TOKEN, I RECKON."
CHAPTER IX
THE CHRISTMAS GUEST
Mr. Gaythorne sat in his great ebony chair
CHAPTER X
A GENTLEMANLY TRAMP
CHAPTER XI
THE NIGHT-BELL RINGS
CHAPTER XII
GRETA
CHAPTER XIII
FRESH COMPLICATIONS
"It is beautiful—it is perfectly charming."
CHAPTER XIV
AN EVENTFUL DAY
CHAPTER XV
"THEY WERE BOTH TO BLAME."
CHAPTER XVI
BUSY DAYS
CHAPTER XVII
PRODIGAL SONS
"They both looked so comfortable and contented."
CHAPTER XVIII
AUNT MADGE GIVES HER OPINION
CHAPTER XIX
DAME FORTUNE SMILES
CHAPTER XX
"SOMEBODY'S CRUTCH."
CHAPTER XXI
SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS
CHAPTER XXII
"YOU MUST NOT LOSE HEART."
CHAPTER XXIII
"I HAVE COME TO STAY."
CHAPTER XXIV
"NOT YET."
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
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Madge often said laughingly that she lived in a world of her own. "But I have very good society," she would add; "the best and wisest of all ages give me their company. This morning I was listening to Plato's Dialogues, and this afternoon Sir Edwin Arnold was entertaining me at the Maple Club in Tokio. This evening—well, please do not think me frivolous, but affairs at Rome and a certain Prince Saracinesca claim my attention.
"A good novel puts me in a better humour and disposes me to sleep, you know," she would finish, brightly, "that I always read aloud to Fergus in the evening; we were going through a course of Thackeray—we were in the middle of 'Philip on his way through the world' when the accident happened. After that he could only bear a few verses or a psalm."
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