Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-06-17

trembled.
"No tooth-ache - repeated the Doctor, impress
ed by he richness of her low tones; ''that ! will
asservate; you have not the tooth-achc Your
voice would not be 80 even and musical if you
had An aching tooth in that fine toned instru-
ment, the human voice, is like key out Of tune
on piano-it makes discord of the whole
| sYou advertised, sir, believe said Caroline,
with frmcr Tone
:Ah perceive. 1t is possible you have come
hther from reading my advertisement
yes, sir
Are you willing to lose four of your teeth
yes, sir-if-f-
paid we'll for them, yon would say
mo, sir, cried Caroline, earnestly; care not
for that so much as,-here she hesitated, and
then added, abrupty-sl am in great need of a
certain sum of money, sir and will do it for that.
Name the sum
Twenty dollars
LET me see your teeth, if you please said the
Doctor, with feelings painfully touched by the
emotion she in vain tried to suppress.
She removed her veil and showed face so
very lovely, that he started back with an excla-
nation of surprise. He then asked in the most
delicate and respectful manner to examine her
mouth. Parting with ivory slip the lips ofthe
half. fanting yet resolute girl, as she sat in his
patients CHAIR he beheld the whitest and most
symmetricay arranged teeth each one perfect in
! itself, he had ever met with-not even excepting
| Mrs. Wharton's.
Are you in earnest in wishing to part " it'll these
fine teeth :? he demanded with astonishment
after admiring them for few moments with de-
lighted surprise.
Eyes, sir
\ Il beg of You do not part with them-it were
sacrilege to mar so fair an instrumental destroy
the ivory columns of so beautiful temple are
you sncere!'
Indeed, sir, am
Il fear me either great virtue great ayarice
hath driven you to this child
Il beg of you sir, tell me if my teeth are such
| as you require
sThey are perfect, he said, taking those which
he had set upon the gold plate, and comparing
them.
And will you give me twenty dollars for the
four front ones, sir 2 she asked with trembling
doubt
Il will Will you consent to have them drawn
AT once
The sound of a carriage driving to the door
was now heard, and the Doctor desiring Caroline
to retire to his ante-room from observation, the
next moment received Mrs. Wharton. She was
pale but no less lovely.
you received my NOTE, Doctor she asked az
ter being seated.
Il did madam But haye, as you here see,
fitted your teeth on plates accurately, that they
can be replaced without difficulty, and will look
nearly as we'll as before, Besides, you need not
wait for the gums to heal, as have composition
for filing the cavities so that can place them on
at once. Look at them are they not beautiful!
| MY poor teeth =, size said, signing as she
glanced at them. Gould you find no person Dr.:
| Il should prefer replacing these, madam
mo. The idea of false teeth, gold plates in my
mouth could not endure the thought should
feel as if were mage Of wires and plated Is
there no alternatye?
There is young woman who is willing to lose
her teeth said the Doctor dropping his voice :
but really they are 50 perfect-nature has made
such pretty piece of work of it-that should
regret to mar it..
sAre they so beautiful
CAS- beautiful vour own were.'
sWere it is indeed scerei Doctor must have
these teeth of hers. But is she young''
Young and lovely. She is now in the next
ROOM
sLet me see her-no, I had rather not, on Sec
ond thought should feel so awkward in meet
ing her afterward. Does she know who wants
her to make the sacrifice #,s
sNo.'
sDo not let her. Yet, would like to see her
She may be a---but yon would not deceive me.
sShe is fair as snow. Come hither. Do you
see the wcll-turned point of that shoe and iustep
just visible W thin the room2
Il do. She is young lady! .#t
Such foot can belong to none other
The dentist having placed his patient and hel
victim in arm-chars in their respective rooms
now prepared to go through his painful duty
Having carefully measured the depth of each Of
the cavities in Mrs Wharton's mouth, he irritatet
the inner surface and made slight ncision or
the sides so as to draw blood. Then, going into
the room where Caroline patiently and reso
lutely seated he drew one of her teeth with sucl
skill and ease as scarcely to give her pain, an,
returned with it into the room he had left. Her
he measured it by the previously ascertainc
| r,a,-ure of the denth of the corresnondin, hed