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But irrational reproaches were easier to bear than the sense of being

instructed, or rather the sense that a younger ate,

inwardly considered him in need of instruction, for "in point of fact,"

Mr Wrench afterwards said, Lydgate paraded flighty, foreign notions,

which would not wear He sed his ire for the moment, but he

afterwards wrote to decline further attendance in the case The house

to truckle to anybody

on a professional matter He reflected, with much probability on his

side, that Lydgate would by-and-by be caught tripping too, and that his

ungentles by his

professional brethren, would by-and-by recoil on hiate's tricks, worthy only of a quack, to get

himself a factitious reputation with credulous people That cant about

cures was never got up by sound practitioners

This was a point on which Lydgate snorance was not only hu, but

perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the

weather-prophet He was impatient of the foolish expectations ah to dae himself

as much as Mr Wrench could wish, by an unprofessional openness

However, Lydgate was installed as medical attendant on the Vincys, and