He was so good as to come to the door.

I was shocked to trouble him to act in his professional capacity while he was a visitor, an honored visitor, in my house.

Besides, I considered it more a case for a clergyman than for a medical man.

However, there was no help for it after Hopkins's tongue.
I requested our eminent friend to favor us with--I think the exact scientific term is--a Prognosis.

He took the purely material view which was only to be expected from a person in his profession.