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Dr. Sevier

Chapter 2 THE DOCTOR.

Word Count: 1234    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

ler and brighter and with less distance between them than one notices in other streets. It is there that the stock and bond brokers hurry to and fro and run together promi

ng occupation, and at the hall's farther end you descry the "Future Room," and hear the unearthly ramping and bellowing of the bulls and bears. Up and

are served in lieu of the present exchanges; men made fortunes standing on the curb-stone, and during bank hours the sidewalks were perpetually crowded with cot

lder town, not yet impoverished in those days,-the French quarter. A single square and a half off at the right, and in plain view from the front windows, shone the dazzling white walls of the St. Charles Hotel, where the nabobs of the river plantations came and dwelt with their fair-handed wives in seasons of peculiar anticipation, when it is well to be near the highest medica

nted out like the muzzles of cannon through the embrasures of his virtues. To demolish evil!-that seemed the finest of aims; and even as a physician, that was, most likely, his motive until later years and a better self-knowledge had taught him that to do good was still finer and better. He waged war-against malady. To fight; to stifle; to cut down; to uproo

of knavery. To face it in its nakedness, and to inveigh against it in high places and low, seemed the consumm

of his kindred, to whom, truth t

can't do. A man must die! So, w

gh long, irregular files of fellow-beings thronging either sidewalk,-a sadly unchivalric grouping of men whose daily and yearly life was subord

, sir; it's life!" the

perquisites. At every jog of the Doctor's horse, men came to view whose riches were the outcome of semi-respectable larceny. It was a day of reckless operation; much of the

wreckers!"

ight, indignation at

nious; it was damaging. He grew sore

se I seek and render service for the service's sake. It will come

nto much disbelief of poor men's needs. For instance, he looked upon a man's inability to find empl

for begging, it ought to be easier f

the bottom of his belief concerning himself,

out his purse, "I'll help any man to make himself useful. And the sick-

s. Shall we condemn the fault? Yes. And the man? We have not the face. To be just, which he never knowingly failed to be, and at the same time to feel tenderly for the unworthy, to deal kindly with the erring,-it

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1 Chapter 1 * * *2 Chapter 2 THE DOCTOR.3 Chapter 3 A YOUNG STRANGER.4 Chapter 4 HIS WIFE.5 Chapter 5 CONVALESCENCE AND ACQUAINTANCE.6 Chapter 6 HARD QUESTIONS.7 Chapter 7 NESTING.8 Chapter 8 DISAPPEARANCE.9 Chapter 9 A QUESTION OF BOOK-KEEPING.10 Chapter 10 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.11 Chapter 11 GENTLES AND COMMONS.12 Chapter 12 A PANTOMIME.13 Chapter 13 "SHE'S ALL THE WORLD."14 Chapter 14 THE BOUGH BREAKS.15 Chapter 15 HARD SPEECHES AND HIGH TEMPER.16 Chapter 16 THE CRADLE FALLS.17 Chapter 17 MANY WATERS.18 Chapter 18 RAPHAEL RISTOFALO.19 Chapter 19 HOW HE DID IT.20 Chapter 20 ANOTHER PATIENT.21 Chapter 21 ALICE.22 Chapter 22 THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT.23 Chapter 23 BORROWER TURNED LENDER.24 Chapter 24 WEAR AND TEAR.25 Chapter 25 BROUGHT TO BAY.26 Chapter 26 THE DOCTOR DINES OUT.27 Chapter 27 THE TROUGH OF THE SEA.28 Chapter 28 OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN.29 Chapter 29 "OH, WHERE IS MY LOVE "30 Chapter 30 RELEASE.-NARCISSE.31 Chapter 31 LIGHTING SHIP.32 Chapter 32 AT LAST.33 Chapter 33 A RISING STAR.34 Chapter 34 BEES, WASPS, AND BUTTERFLIES.35 Chapter 35 TOWARD THE ZENITH.36 Chapter 36 TO SIGH, YET FEEL NO PAIN.37 Chapter 37 WHAT NAME 38 Chapter 38 PESTILENCE.39 Chapter 39 "I MUST BE CRUEL ONLY TO BE KIND."40 Chapter 40 "PETTENT PRATE."41 Chapter 41 SWEET BELLS JANGLED.42 Chapter 42 MIRAGE.43 Chapter 43 RISTOFALO AND THE RECTOR.44 Chapter 44 SHALL SHE COME OR STAY 45 Chapter 45 WHAT WOULD YOU DO 46 Chapter 46 NARCISSE WITH NEWS.47 Chapter 47 A PRISON MEMENTO.48 Chapter 48 NOW I LAY ME-49 Chapter 49 RISE UP, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE.50 Chapter 50 A BUNDLE OF HOPES.51 Chapter 51 FALL IN!52 Chapter 52 BLUE BONNETS OVER THE BORDER.53 Chapter 53 A PASS THROUGH THE LINES.54 Chapter 54 TRY AGAIN.55 Chapter 55 "WHO GOES THERE "56 Chapter 56 DIXIE.57 Chapter 57 FIRE AND SWORD.58 Chapter 58 ALMOST IN SIGHT.59 Chapter 59 A GOLDEN SUNSET.60 Chapter 60 AFTERGLOW.61 Chapter 61 "YET SHALL HE LIVE."62 Chapter 62 PEACE.