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As he was co away, the doctor chanced to meet on the

staircase an acquaintance of his, Sludin, as secretary of

Alexey Alexandrovitch's departh they rarely hly

of each other and were excellent friends, and so there was no one

to whoiven his opinion of a patient so

freely as to Sludin

"How glad I a him!" said Sludin "He's not

well, and I fancy Well, what do you think of hi over Sludin's head to

his coache round "It's just this," said

the doctor, taking a finger of his kid glove in his white hands

and pulling it, "if you don't strain the strings, and then try to

break the

to its very uter on the

strained string will snap it And with his close assiduity, his

conscientious devotion to his work, he's strained to the ut on hi his eyebrows significantly

"Will you be at the races?" he added, as he sank into his seat in