Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-09

:" The gleam of idle eladness-
The glimmer of memories bright,
That hid in each line of those eter of mine,
Those letters burn to-night?"
ss All well! the dream was a folly:
Its joy was an idle thing. t.. .s
Its hope vas lie, and its loyalty
So a kiss-the ast-to my letters,
! A re olnte hand, snd-there! ~ t.s---,
.s-si Meet mine through the fierce flames fsres
IS a1za- MILLY LANCE.
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DIR. Dendy was not good looking. He
might even have been called ugly, but
there is an excellent precept impressed on
all well-cared-for minds in their nursery
stage of formation, to the effect that no one
may be so Extensively described except it
will not be necessary to name. Let US
say, therefore, that DR.. Dendy was plain.
He was a phyeician of large practice
JOcose people said of him that in the course
OF his professional career he had occasion
to thrust SO many guineas into his pockets
that eventually the gold coin, carried so
much about his person, had got into his
own circulation, and affected the color of
his skin. Certainly his complexion was
deeply tinged with yellow. He was very
bald, with narrow festoon of iron-gray
hair at the back of his head. His small,
neat, wiry figure was always clothed in
black his coat being invariably buttoned
tightly across his chest. He was of middle
age, perhaps little better; which express
sion, as applied to age, Is generally under
stood to signify little worse, or older
He lived in grand, gaunt, murky house
in Harley street, seldom setting foot in
more than two rooms in 1t, however-bis
L. lx11
author of an admired Treatise on the Pa
thology of the Heart, to which work lie
was constantly adding annotations and
commentaries, with a view to completely
exhaustipg and settling the subject. When
he was able to devote little more time to
it. his book. he was satisfied, would be the
only authority on the heart-physiologi-
cally and pathologically considered.
But his time was very much occupied.
He saw patients at his own house almost
before he had swallowed his breakfast; later
in the day, he saw other patients at their
own homes; and he was one of the ply
sicians to St. Lazarus hospital, and gave
lectures on Materia Medica, course after
course, to the students of that excellent in
stitution; he was a fellow, or a member, of
all sorts of scientific societies, and on GER
tain days in the week he attended the boards
of various insurance companies, examined
papers, and passed or rejected lives pro-
posed for insurance. He was hard-work
ing and prosperous. Few men in the pro-
fession, it was said, made so large an in
come. Go to what part of the town you
would, you seemed to be forever encounter
ing DIR. Dendy g two-horse carriage rattling
along at great pace, going to or from pa
tfents and the accompanying golden fees.
When the doctor started in the morning,
he gave his coachman list of the places
he was to drive to. In this list the COACH
mo, hod o,f vnvryf fnr r,,oy he
certain house in Calthorpe street. You
called it Calthorpe street, Russell square,
if you were desirous of consulting the
predictions of its Inhabitants; if you were
needless in that respect, You spoke of it
with perhaps greater accuracy as Calthorpe
street, Gray's Inn road. DIR. Dendy always
| appeared to prefer the aforementioned
designation.
| The coachman treated himself to fur
! tive smile whenever he read Calthorpe
street in the list. The doctor had patient
there, of course. But then, as the coach
man noted, his master went there oftener
and staid there longer than anywhere else.
deplOrable state, might stand more in need
of protracted visits from medical adviser
than any other of DR.. Dendy's patients !;
but the cOachman was inclined to think
| that such was not the case.
On the first floor of the house on CAL
thorpe street visited by DR.. Dendy, there
lodged one Capt. Lance, a retired Indian
officer, and his only child, Miss Milly
Lance. Capt. Lance was in feeble hea lth
from distressing asthma, and from 9TH
i er-infirmities of a painful nature. He did
not bear his sufferings patiently; was in
deed very peevish and petulant and hard
to please; exhibited all the selishness and
| want of considerr tion which long course
1 of ill-healJh is apt to develop in almost
| nm
his original stock of equanimity and good
nature. But Capt. Lance had not begun
| with much excellence of temper; and now,
a confirmed invalid, it may be said of him
that he had no temper at all, except of the
very worst sort. He was attended. how.
ever, with ceaseless solicitIde, an untir-
ing affection, by his daughter Milly, slim
fair girl of eighteen or SO, not very re.
markable looking, beyond that she possess.
ed profusion of glossy brown hair, and 9
pair of large, luminous, dOve-like eyes.
No wonder she was pale. She was al
ways by the side or within call of her in
valid father. She was hardly ever per.
dull, firing work. "Don't go, Milly," hi
would say sharply, u may want you
! there's no knowing" She could only es
cape when he dozed-his asthma lulled fo
a while by anodynes. Awake, he woult
/ have her ever near him, waiting fol
and then he would upbraid her bitterly fo
some fancied neglect of him, the poor child
with twitching face patiently standing b.
him the while, replying only by her tears
her caresses, and her increased eXertion
for his comfort. Then he would make he
: the audience of his repinings. tell over ant
over again the story of his sufferings, burst
ing out occasionally inc passionate lamen
9 tations over his broken health and ruinet
fortunes. What could she do? It wa
tiIing, cruel work for poor Milly Lance.
b He was poor. The fact was too oftel
haFped on and groaned over for Milly no
to oe conscious enough of 1T.
. Yet it must be said that DIR. DENLY ha,
!. made no inroads on the sick officer
Strengthened means.
mo, nv DEAR" he said to Milly, on hi
first visit, putting from him with a smil
r 1.-The proffered fee, sit mustn't be. We doc
. tors have all Our crocnets. Each of us ha
his free list. One enters clergymen upol
lit; another artists; third authors. FO
. y my part. never take a fee from soldier
e should be ashamed to do 1t. My Ow
father was soldier, and served in India, a
your father has served. only he was NOR
10 fortunate. He was General of a divisio
0. when he died. Don't let us hear any NOR
g talk about fees. 1t mustn't be thought G
- for a moment"
- Lob. DR.. Dendy, how good of yon! Bu
:. .l-you'll come and see him again?" Mill
l. said, timidly thankful, yet alarmed. Woul
b 80 great man as the physician be confer
es to continue laboring without his due n
:. ward i-T
T. MY dear, shall come again and agail
" as often as possible, till, between us, we'S
y made poor papa quite we'll again."
II This was on the occasion of DR.. Dendy
first visit to Calthorpe street. Milly's gra
itude seemed to know no bounds. An
then, thanks to Providence and the Do
tors remedies, the invalid's health had ce
u. tainly mended of late. He had not scoldt
l,s her for nearly three days and for about