The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-11-06
A Doc:or's Story.

| eSt tooIiAS ONNesoiNAA, Doo w AH'~AA,
the proverb says, is either the one
or the other at forty, and I wish
the uncemplimentary remark to
be kept a profound secret between
myself and the public. Twas just
fVe-and-twenty when I made a
J solemn determination to live and
! die a bachelor: moved thereto BY
the pretty Mary Somers having
refused me and married my friend
and school-fellow, John Toimer.
I never saw her afterwards; :;
she died in few years. John
came to me in the lonely sorrow
of his bereavement, seeking for
! comfort and sympathy; in the re-
newaf Of our early friendship I
shook his hand-l listened to bis
words Of grief for Mary-I wept-
and we were brothers as before.
After some time [ went abroad,
and travelled through many lands,
picking up a few out-of-the-way
secrets in. medicine, which have
beer useful attimes tony patients,
and especially to, my darling -7=-- ~.
Butt must not anticipate. i.
Years passed on;I grow tired
Of leading a wandering life, and
returned to my native country,
Ireland, I took up my abode in
Dublin: I began to practice as q
physician, but somehow I did not
get on particularly ll,-at least
with the ladies. I could not, for
the life of me, listen with a grave,
sympathizing face to the, history
oft:a nervous :headacheSs' *sss ner-
vous fnger=ache," "a nervous gen
.eral affection" Oh, those nerves !!
How J. hated. the very namet ]
suppose one reason why I did not
succeed well an my profession was
that I had the means of living in
aafuencc without it. oneof those:
kind old Three-pereent.-C .-Consofs:
.anaits; so EfrequentlyA to be met
with in novels, and so seldom in
+esef Scsff - ssy - a w ny
seen, ,ldled sheftly y after My return
from abroad.
4 few days before her death,
she had had "a most: ,opportune:
Quarrel with her waiting-maid, on
the seerezof the epttparrot having;
bitten the pet cat, and the latter
having retaliated by clawing out
her antagonists eye,. without
Susan being present, as in duty,
bound, to prevent hostilitles. In,
revenge OF the injury sustained by
the feathered biped, the luckless-
expectant plumeless one WAS sum-
marily dismissed and disinherited
| in favor of; me, her lawful and
"beleyed nephew" as the old lady.
| styled :mesin herwnI s?;I.:f
May be, some thought Of old
kote for my mother, whom. she
had disowned for marrying my
father, came back. assueh thoughts
often do, and visited those in death
who in life; have sternly repelled
them. Be this as it may, I sud-
denly found myself a rich man,
just when l felt that riches, with
out Mary Somersswere. >valueless.
pensioned poor Susan, and also
the cat and the parrot, who being
annuitants, lived, ! need not say,
to a good old age. My aunt's lega-
cy, still, invested in the Funds,
formed a comfortable provision,
and removed the spur of necessity
from my professional efforts. .@.,
One day I received a letter from
/ John Tolmer (who lived in a re-
mote part of Ireland, saying that
he felt very uneasy about his only
daughters state of health, "She
had had severe attack Of scarla-
tina in the spring, and, probably
from wanting a mothers watchful
care, e,"-these words were written
very TREMENDOUSLY, never
since properly regained = her
strength" He had sent her to
town under the care of her aunt,
Mrs. Willis, who resided in
street; would [ call to see her,
and give my opinion Of her case =?
"Of course Twill - saidI to my
self. 'Poor slittle thing! She's
about ten years old, l suppose.
Better have to deal with a girl of
that age, who knows nothing of
nerves, than with a fine geow n-up
younglady-I hate youngiadies,-
and then Mary's child! !"
:. So; without waiting even to
finish reading a debate on the Med
| icat Charities Bill, l set off to 60
to Mrs. Willis. She lived in a
nice comfortable house, and was a
nice, comfortably-looking lady her
self, with matronly but not
motherly expression Of counte-
nance for, although a widowSshe
had no. children. And mother,
ioy, as the, Germans beautifully
call it, gives an expression to the
dullest face-to the plainest2fea.
lures, which no other emotion can
ever produce.
"My niece,'' she said, u fear
| Doctor is very i'll; her strength
has failed so much lately. And
yet she has been brought up in q