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    not alt [ creates linked thus , ? \ ish ^ ekbdfoei « l&f&ot ; m&j he w alk ed - As he approached bis : hoi&te h&nlooked tap atlit ; ibbe library fWUidpw © -wierye open , and ire fancied he sawrtben figure -of some one m £ fae roorti . He felt his pocket for , she key- * -4 t was not there , he had it in the It

    and he ^ now recollected that left door ! instantly flashed across his mind that an incursion had been made into that room of refuge . The idea was soon strengthened , for , at the street door , he picked up a sheet of manuscript which had been blown out of one of the windows * With this mute witness of the violation which he foresaw was going forward ,, he thundered at the door , hurried up stairs , and entered the library . Mrs . Drennan , like an adjutant , stood in the midst of it , giving

    orders to two remorseless housemaids , who were down on their kftees scrubbing the floor , which had so lately been strewn with books , papers , maps , and prints . , Who . may paint the doctor as he stood 1 ; 4 Struck with severe amazement—hating life , *

    jiji a ^ voiceless convulsion of indignation and despair ? The anger of an habitually patient person is the most awful thing on « arth ; ^ pe thoroughly aroused , the doctor was terrific . The domestics $ e <^ )? e ? or / e the terror of his looks ; his spouse , however , stood her ground manfully , I had almost said , but doggedly were the p £# * wojrd , and before the undone scholar could relieve his ieel-* S )? & a single word , she launched forth a . cataract of invective .

    wjqplch ^ p y ; depriving him of all hope of a hearing , effectually se-^ ilf ^ 4 , hJLS silence . But the desperate state of his feelings de-Wflfl $ ? 4 spme relief , so turning from the living foe of his peace , he fellupon the inanimate agents of her mischief ; pails , brooms , ty £ U 3 Jke , $ , flew put at the windows with the force and celerity of a pn ^ mortar that any one the

    j ^ jmbj ^ r a ; so chancing to pass house at f ^ e , J 4 fp £ j , a | id escaping the effects of such windfalls , might have jmaginecjl i , t opi fjre > and the inmates adopting the readiest mode j ^ sa ^ xng ^ its cqntents from conflagration . ¦ lrftvWiw ^^ ' D rennan ima gined that she ran some risk of ' iWW- '^ H ^ ^ W ^ c h , a journey with a broomstick ; or that she ^ wgh j ^ it 0 | e ^ to make her exit at the door , seeing that her hu « - band jxad a prejudice for departures at the window , certainly she jnade , a precipitate retreat down stairs . At length ! Dr . Drennan seated himself to draw breath but

    tolft an aspect stern as Marius when he appalled the assassin . Jt . ^ ad , perta , ilil y not been well for the reputation of the doctors $ & * $ & W ^ P % ^ Pky > to h ? ^ asked him at that moment his ^ W ^ . ffii jWr ' P . tffett H ^ iTy > ¦ WaAiWonkl system . The doctor f ^ iliW ^ Wffi fl ^ < U . ^^ iw B B tjj ^ W fepftfe of J « ob , but none I of its « con-Wfflft ° 9 BW 5 ^ : $ » > lW * ^ »* Jbi »^ irorioCjiutohiBg rs . Drennan been suddenly vested in his hands , will believe

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/8/