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About teeks after the death of Doctor Gordon's wife Ja his round of calls Lately nearly all

the practice had devolved upon hiloomy

apathy, froent

necessities

Once aroused he was fully hi or seely half-asleep Once in a while a

very sick patient acted upon him as a momentary stimulus, but Alton was

unusually healthy just then After an open and, for the most part,

snowless winter, which had occasioned ht falls of snohich seeive new life to people

in spite of unseasonableness Ja to h he was necessarily away froreater part of the time However, he often took Clegy reading a book while

hedrives over solitary roads,

which, though rough, causing the wheels to jolt heavily in deep ridges

of frozen soil, or sink into the red ht be, seeh he

hirieved for Gordon's wife, and Gordon hi and the girl was young, and they were

both released from a miserable sense of insecurity and hts now turned toward their

own springtime, as naturally and innocently as flowers bloorief, and the shadow of trouble, but of past trouble; their eyes looked

upon life and love and joy instead of death, as helplessly as a flower