Heart and Science : a story of the present time

Chapter 1

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tury had advanced into the l

ege of Surgeons) stood at the window of his consulting-room in Lon

prosperous career before him, he had been compelled (at only thirty-one years of age) to ask a colleague to take charge of his practice, and to give t

e happy knack of being idle at a moment's notice. Ovid found the mere act of looking o

n common, under present circumstances. Being deprived of conjugal superintendence, he broke though his own rules. His restless hand unlocked a dr

ified. In emergencies of any sort, he was a patient man and a man of resource. The necessary verification could be accomplished by a visit to the College of Surgeons, situated in the great square called Lincoln's Inn Fi

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Heart and Science : a story of the present time

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“The weary old nineteenth century had advanced into the last twenty years of its life. Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, Ovid Vere (of the Royal College of Surgeons) stood at the window of his consulting-room in London, looking out at the summer sunshine, and the quiet dusty street. He had received a warning, familiar to the busy men of our time — the warning from overwrought Nature, which counsels rest after excessive work. With a prosperous career before him, he had been compelled (at only thirty-one years of age) to ask a colleague to take charge of his practice, and to give the brain which he had cruelly wearied a rest of some months to come. On the next day he had arranged to embark for the Mediterranean in a friend’s yacht.”