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THE PATIENT WHO DISAPPOINTED HER DOCTOR
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lined with observation. I recognised that it was in fact the essence of Sebastian.

Next day, as it turned out, the Professor himself insisted upon testing lethodyne in his own person. All Nat's strove to dissuade him.
HE LAY LONG ASLEEP.'Your life is so precious, sir: the advancement of science!' But the Professor was adamantine.

'Science can only be advanced if men of science will take their lives in their hands,' he answered sternly. 'Besides, Nurse Wade has tried. Am I to lag behind a woman in my devotion to the cause of physiological knowledge?'

'Let him try,' Hilda Wade murmured to me. 'He is quite right. It will not hurt him. I have told him already he has just the proper temperament to stand the drug. Such people are rare: he is one of them.'

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