Two hard cases ; sketches from a physician's portfolio / by W.W. Godding.
- W. W. Godding
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Two hard cases ; sketches from a physician's portfolio / by W.W. Godding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![stead of Toronto, Can., and erased it], which leaves here at eleven. I will get there in the morning^ and will immediately telegraph to you. I find myself here with barely enough money to last me a day or two, when I shall have reached Toronto [^gain Toronto is written over Niagara, erased], at the end of which time I hope some one will arrive from Taunton. Where this money came from, how I came here, I know not. The thought rushes through my mind that it is the money B lost last July. Yet I cannot believe that, for I re- member carrying his money to the office as distinctly as anything in my life. I make all haste to relieve you from the anxious suspense my absence must have caused vou. You must have thouo;ht that I had broke my promise to you. This would be painful enough to me, but I almost lose sight of it in the anguish of an infinitely more terrible grief. Scarcely more than a week ago we were speaking of my going home, and everything looked so bright and hopeful. To-day I begin my journey to the hospital, which I know must be as a living tomb to me,— from which I nevercan and never ought to go forth, bearing such a curse as I do; and with the bitterest realization that even that which makes the darkest life brighter, hope, has passed from mine forever. Oh, you have known in part what a great ambi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21054514_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
