Volume 1

Dr. Edith Romney / a novel [by Anne Elliot].

  • Anne Elliot
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dr. Edith Romney / a novel [by Anne Elliot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thought she, amused, and also that he has found consolation. Fane at once recognised the young lady he had already caught three glimpses of, and as quickly acknowledged her to be the prettiest girl in the room. He had time for no further inspection then, for Mr. Milward seized upon him at once, the sight of the new doctor having revived a fresh impulse of interest in his last hobby. The necessity of at once explaining it to an intelligent listener, even postponed his falling a victim to Miss Fane’s charms. The history of his cold, and of the speedy and com- plete cure effected by the new system, was gone into at length. lie playfully declared that now he could be his own doctor, adding that this independence of medical men made him quite unbiassed as regarded persons, and he brought his eloquent peroration to a close in the words Mona used a few minutes ago—that Dr. Fane might regard his house as neutral ground. Fane did not see the precise bearing of the remark, as he was ignorant of Winifred’s relation- ship to his rival. He smiled, however, and ex- pressed due admiration of the sentiment. He had refused the thimbleful of pale tea offered him by Jack, and Mr. Milward straightway carried him off into the back drawing-room. Fane had seen several homoeopathic medicine-
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