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"What I desire," Mr Bulstrode continued, looking still more serious,

"is that Mr Farebrother's attendance at the hospital should be

superseded by the appointment of a chaplain--of Mr Tyke, in fact--and

that no other spiritual aid should be called in"

"As a medial man I could have no opinion on such a point unless I knew

Mr Tyke, and even then I should require to know the cases in which he

was applied" Lydgate s circumspect

"Of course you cannot enter fully into the merits of this measure at

present But"--here Mr Bulstrode began to speak with a more chiselled

emphasis--"the subject is likely to be referred to the medical board of

the infirmary, and what I trust I may ask of you is, that in virtue of

the cooperation between us which I now look forward to, you will not,

so far as you are concerned, be influenced byto do with clerical disputes," said

Lydgate "The path I have chosen is to ell in ate, is of a broader kind With me,

indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with ood reason to say that it is an occasion for