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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER XXVI
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By-the-by, he has died since then.

Another came with the toothache.

I bled him behind the ear, and relieved him in a jiffy.
He is also since dead as it happens.

I bled our bailiff between the thumb and forefinger for rheumatism.

Presently he comes to me with a headache and drumming in the ears, and holds out his hand over the basin; but I smiled at his folly, and bled him in the left ankle sore against his will, and made his head as light as a nut." Diverging then from the immediate theme after the manner of enthusiasts, the reverend teacher proceeded thus: "Know, young man, that two schools of art contend at this moment throughout Europe.


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