no family sir i shook my head i was aware that you sustained a sir some time ago said mr i heard it from your father in law s sister very decided character there sir why yes said i decided enough where did you see her mr are you not aware sir returned mr with his smile that your father in law is a neighbour of mine no said i lie is indeed sir i said mr married a young lady f that part with a very good little property poor thing � and this action of the brain now sir t you find it fatigue you said mr looking at me like an admiring robin i that question and returned to the i was ware of his being married again do you attend the family i asked not regularly i have been called iu he replied strong david development of the organ of firmness in mr stone and his sister sir i replied with such an expressive look that mr was by that and the together to give his head several short shakes and thoughtfully exclaim ah dear me we remember old times mr and the brother and sister are pursuing their old course are they said i well sir mr a medical man being so much in families ht to have neither eyes nor ears for anything but his profession still i must say they are very severe sir both as to this life and the next the next will be regulated without much reference to them i dare say i returned what are they doing as to this mr shook his head stirred his and it she was a charming woman sir he observed in a plaintive manner the present mrs a charming woman indeed sir said mr as amiable i am sure as it was possible to be mrs s opinion is that her spirit has been entirely broken since her marriage and that she is all but melancholy mad and the ladies observed mr are great sir i suppose she was to be subdued and broken to their detestable mould heaven help her said i and she has been well sir there were violent quarrels at first i assure you said mr but she is quite a shadow now would it be considered forward if i was to say to you sir in confidence that since the sister came to help the brother and sister between them have nearly reduced her to a state of i told him i could easily believe it i have no hesitation in saying said mr himself with another of between you and me that her mother died of it � or that tyranny gloom and worry have made mrs nearly she was a lively young woman sir before marriage and their gloom and destroyed her they go about with her now more like her than her husband and sister in tliat was mrs s remark to me only david last week and i assure you sir the ladies are great and mi s herself is a great observer does he gloomily profess to be i am ashamed to use the word in such association religious still i inquired you anticipate sir said mr his eyelids getting quite red with tlie unwonted in which he was indulging one of mrs s most impressive remarks mrs he proceeded in the and manner quite me by pointing out that mr sets up an image of himself and calls it the divine nature you have knocked me down on the flat of my back sir with the feather of a pen i assure you when mrs said so the ladies are great sir said i to his extreme delight i am very happy to receive such support in my opinion sir he rejoined it is not often that i venture to give a non medical opinion i assure you mr public addresses sometimes and it is said � in short sir it is said by mrs � that the darker tyrant he has lately been the more ferocious is his doctrine i believe mi s to be perfectly right said i mrs does go so far as to say pursued the of little men much encouraged that what such people their religion is a vent for their bad s and and do you know i must say sir he continued mildly laying his head ou one side that i don t find authority for mr and miss in the new testament i never found it either said i in the meantime sir said mr they are much disliked and as they are very free in everybody who them to we really have a good deal of on in our neighbourhood however as mrs says sir they undergo a continual punishment for they are turned inward to feed upon their own hearts and their own hearts are very bad feeding now sir about that brain of yours if you ll excuse my returning to it don t you expose it to a good deal of excitement sir i found it not difficult in the excitement of mr s own david brain under his of to divert his attention from this topic to his own affairs on which for the next half hour he was quite giving me to understand among other pieces of information that he was then at the gray s inn coffee house to lay his professional evidence before a commission of touching the state of mind of a patient who had become from excessive drinking and i assure you sir he said i am extremely nervous on such occasions i could not support being what is called sir it would quite me do you know it was some time before i recovered the conduct of that alarming lady on the night of your birth mr t told him that i was going down to my aunt the of that night early 