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Further conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Dr Orton; but Haldane saw that Aht try to catch a rope that was being lowered to hiht be the end," said the doctor, glooht; "it frequently is in constitutions like his" Then he went up and saw Mrs Poland
The lady's condition gave him much anxiety, but he kept it to hiutterly down in trying to say a feords of coirl, he motioned to Haldane to follow hie for such disposal of the re inforraph Mrs Arnot, Haldane accompanied the physician to the business part of town
"You have been a godsend to the his nose furiously "This case comes a little nearer home than any that has yet occurred; but then the botto, and it looks as if ould all go before we have a frost It see rather than see Aed to a nephew of mine--as fine a fellow as there is in town, if I do say it, and I love the girl as if she werein Europe now, and I doubt if he knows the danger hanging over the girl If anything happens to her it will about kill him, for he idolizes her, and well he may I'm dreadfully anxious about theland lady, as I suppose you knoonderfully gifted woile body of hers Well, perhaps you did not understand all that was said last night; but Mrs Poland has always been a great reader, and she has been carried away by the materialistic philosophy that's in fashion nowadays Queer, isn't it? and she two-thirds spirit herself Her husband and enial and whole-souled a ood dinner, fond of a joke, and fond of his family to idolatry His wife had unbounded influence over hiht have been a little fast; but he always laughed at what he called her 'Yankee notions,' and said he would not accept her philosophy until she became a little more material herself Poland was a square, successful business man, but I fear he did not lay up much He was too open-hearted and free-handed--a typical Southerner I suppose you would say at the North, that is, those of you who don't think of us as all slave-drivers and slave-traders I expect the North and South will have to have a good, square, stand-up fight before they understand each other"