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J. S. Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales, Volume 3

CHAPTER XIII
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You heard how they gave tongue.

Upon my honour, I'll send the whole case up to my old chief, Sir Hervey Hansard, to London.

You'll hear what a noise it will make among the profession.

There never was--and it ain't too much to say there never _will_ be--another case like it." During this lecture, and a great deal more, Sir Bale leaned back in his chair, with his legs extended, his heels on the ground, and his arms folded, looking sourly up in the face of a tall lady in white satin, in a ruff, and with a bird on her hand, who smiled down superciliously from her frame on the Baronet.

Sir Bale seemed a little bit high and dry with the Doctor.
"You physicians are unquestionably," he said, "a very learned profession." The Doctor bowed.
"But there's just one thing you know nothing about----" "Eh?
What's that ?" inquired Doctor Torvey.
"Medicine," answered Sir Bale.


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