You ought to have known that, with half an eye.

And you know," he added again confidentially in Sir Bale's ear, "trying any more _now_ is all my eye." Then after a few more words with the Baronet, and having heard his narrative, he said from time to time, "Quite right; nothing could be better; capital practice, sir," and so forth.

And at the close of all this, amid the sobs of kind Mrs.Julaper and the general whimpering of the humbler handmaids, the Doctor standing by the bed, with his knuckles on the coverlet, and a glance now and then on the dead face beside him, said--by way of 'quieting men's minds,' as the old tract-writers used to say--a few words to the following effect: "Everything has been done here that the most experienced physician could have wished.

Everything has been done in the best way.

I don't know anything that has not been done, in fact.