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...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... who can read aright, they explain more fully, more truly than any written history can do, how Englishmen have become what they are. England is not ye... ...her’s family was such as the Scatcherds! It was necessary that the child’s history should be known to none. Except to the mother’s brother it was an o... ... practice and in countenance by nearly all his brethren in the county. The guinea fee, the principle of giving ad- vice and of selling no medicine, th... ...er information. She would have been most anxious to ask about her mother’s history had she dared to do so; but she did not dare to ask; she could not ... ... and I’d have all my books bound as she does; and, perhaps, I’d give fifty guineas for a dressing-case. ’ ‘Fifty guineas!’ ‘Patience did not tell me; ...