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The New Magdalen

CHAPTER XIII
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Do you wonder how he gets on at this rate?
My dear boy, they all get on in the same way.

The medical profession thrives on two incurable diseases in these modern days--a He-disease and a She-disease.
She-disease--nervous depression; He-disease--suppressed gout.

Remedies, one guinea, if _you_ go to the doctor; two guineas if the doctor goes to _you_.

I might have bought a new bonnet," cried her ladyship, indignantly, "with the money I have given to that man! Let us change the subject.

I lose my temper when I think of it.


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