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A LOQUACIOUS lady, ill of a complaint of forty years' standing, applied
to Mr. Abernethy for advice, and had begun to describe its progress
from the first, when Mr. A. interrupted her, saying he wanted to go into
the next street, to see a patient; he begged the lady to inform him how
long it would take her to tell her story. The answer was, twenty
minutes. He asked her to proceed, and hoped she would endeavor to
finish by the time he returned.
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