The Garotters by William Dean Howells
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Campbell.'
WILLIS: 'Why don't you advertise, Doctor? Patients need only enclose a lock of their hair, and the colour of their eyes, with one dollar to pay the cost of materials, which will be sent, with full directions for treatment, by return mail. Seventh son of a seventh son.' LAWTON: 'Ah, don't try to jest it away, my poor friend. This is one of those obscure diseases of the heart--induration of the pericardium--which, if not taken in time, result in deceitfulness above all things, and desperate wickedness.' WILLIS: 'Look here, Dr. Lawton, what are you up to?' LAWTON: 'Look here, Mr. Campbell, what is your little game?' WILLIS: '_I_ don't know what you're up to.' He shrugs his shoulders and walks up the room. LAWTON, shrugging his shoulders and walking up the room abreast of Campbell: '_I_ don't know what your little game is.' They return together, and stop, confronting each other. WILLIS: 'But if you think I'm going to give myself away--' LAWTON: 'If you suppose I'm going to take you at your own figure--' They walk up the room together, and return as before. WILLIS: 'Mrs. Bemis, what is this unnatural parent of yours after?' |
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