Dr. Sevier

ll of new-comers from all parts of the commercial world,-strangers seeking livelihood. The r

, besides shiploads of European immigrants, came hundreds of unacclimated youths, from all parts of the United State

nobility rightly attributable to emigration itself in the abstract. It was the cutting loose from friends and aid,-those sweet-named temptations,-and the going forth into self-appointed exile and into dangers known and unknown, trusting to the help of one's own right hand to ex

ced to fall upon a young man of attractive appearance, glancing stranger-wise and eagerly at signs and entrances while he moved down the street. Twice, in the moment of the Doctor's enforced delay, he noticed the young stranger make inquiry of the street's more accustomed frequenters, and that in each case he was directed farth

s still reading the anxious lines left in various handwritings on his slate, when the young man entered. He was of fair heigh

Sev

s,

ill; can I get you to c

her ph

ed any; but we m

s is my hour for being in the office.

egan to add a faltering enumeration of some very grave symptoms. The Doctor notic

hings on shelves; "that's a small part of the penalty women pay for the doubtful honor of being our mothers. I'll go. What is y

rci

king them altogether, found it necessary, or at least convenient, to employ continuously the services of a person to keep his accounts and collect his bills. Through the open door the book-keeper could be seen sitting on a high

s," said the Doctor. "Come, Mr. --

meditative inhalation, turned half round on his heel, dashed the remnant with fierce emphasis into a spittoon, ejected tw

by letter. In the word "right" he substituted an a for the r, sounding it almo

ch some men find in the renewal of a promissory note, twined his legs a

age was hurrying a

ician's companion, "I don't

a was gnawing him just then with fine energy.

fter he had spoken, breathed with compressed lips, and winked savagely

swered with bett

o you p

th a tremulous, but triumphant, hauteur, as though it must cover the physician with mortification. Th

surprise, then turned his eyes away again as if he

you had haggled

said the other,

r waved h

up, if y

wearing a look of impatient embarrassment. He still extended the piece

ctor," he said. He got

cquainted," repl

lip, and protested, by an uncons

-and he turned

pped an eagle's s

e medicine on th

Reasons are better than rules, my old professor used to say. I am here without friends

you at all; any

iled with a baffled air, seemed once or twice about to

by a look of boyish pleasantness,-"I'll not ask you to take pay in advance, but I will ask you to take care of this mone

d in my bill." The Doctor folded arms and appeared to giv

ct to epil

Was it drink, or gambling, or a confidence game? Or was it only vanity, or a mistake of inexperience? He turned his head unexpectedly, and gave the s

the other, but

so his actions were right, he rather liked them to bear a hideous aspect: that was his war-paint. There was that in the stranger's attitude that agreed fairly with his own t

you, this is your way,"-he dropped the g

bed his knee with his somewhat too delicate hand.

ve got the principles of

the other, taking his

u lack is the practice." The Docto

e, it may be, than he felt, and pre

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