The Doctor's Wife (Classic Reprint)

IHE DOCTOR'S WIFE. CHAPTER I. a young ma.n from the country. Theke were two surgeons m the b'ttle town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire,-Mr. Pawl-katt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on the outskirts of Gray-bridge, and worked very hard for a smaller income than that which the stylish Mr. Pawlkatt derived from his aristocratic patients. John Gilbert was an elderly man, with a young son. He had married late in life, and his wife had died very soon after the birth of this son. It was for this reason, most likely, that the enrgeon loved his child as children are rarely loved by their fathers-with an earnest, over-anxious devotion, which from the very first had been something womanly in its character, and which grew with the child's growth. Mr. Gilbert's mind was narrowed by the circle in which he Hved. He had inherited his own patie

Table of Contents

I A young man from the country • 1 II A sensation author 10; III Isabel 20; IV The end of George Gilbert's holiday 35 V* George at home 45; VI Too muoh alone 56; VII On the bridge 67; VIII About poor Joe Tillet's touno wife , 81; IX Miss Sleaford's engagement * • 86; X A bad beoinning, 92; XI "She only said, 'my life is weary I'*' 98 XII Something like a birthday 106; XIII "Oh, my cousin, shallow-hearted!" 121; XIV Under Lord Thurston's oak 132 XV Roland says, "amen" 142; XVI Mr Lansdell relates an adventure • « 147; XVII The first warninq 157; XVIII The seoond warning 173 XIX What mioht have been! , 183; XX "Oceans should divide us!" , * 188; XXL "Once more the gate behind me falls" , 199; XXII "My love's a noble madness" 207; XXIII A little oloud 214; XXIV Lady Gwendoline does her duty 221 XXV "For love himself took p