Capitolo 60
[November 22 nd 1879.]
Perhaps You as soon as it would guess from his/her aspect and ways that him
it was a surgeon and a medicine-man. He doesn't certainly smell of
lavender or peppermint, or it shows excellent and curious flax or walk
slightly as a cat. Contrariwise.
He smells of tobacco, and hands flannel underclothes. Its footstep is
heavy. He is a kind of gross Indian cow-buffalo, great of man, with an entangled
the growth of beard. His/her voice that harangues and amount of family and strong way to
an outrage. He laughs as a camel with deep noises of bubbling. Often
buttocks of corduroy and gaiters bandage its shapeless legs, and he rides
a mare of common-cross Waler.
I beg the the that he cannot be never forced to operate on my eyes,
or bowels or some other delicate organ--that he can be never
asked to trephine for my skull, or it removes the roof of my mouth.
Clearly he is an individual a lot of good person. He walks right in Your
sketch-room with a pipe in his/her mouth, Your name out. No
servant announces his/her arrival. He stamps on in and it is crushed in
a chair, without removing his/her hat or completing some other tall
ceremonial. He is riding in the sun, and it is in a state of
profuse transpiration; You will have to bring him/it round with the
national drink of Anglo-India, a brandy-and-firm carbonate.
He will now enter on Your case. "Well, you are seeming a lot blooming;
thing the devil the matter is with you? Eh? Eh? Wants a trip to the
hills? Eh? Eh? As it is the pony of bay? Eh? You has seen Smith it is new
filly? Eh?"
This is very happy and reassuring if you are a healthy man with
of the great evident illness--a broken rib, cholera or ache of teeth;
but if you are a fine, man gently-done pregnant with poetry as
the egg of the nightingale is pregnant with music, and beating with
a nervous and delicious sensibility, languishing under perhaps some vague
and hidden illness of which you are only aware in moments of
intense introspection, this way of draw near to the diagnosis is proper
to give a hit to Your system.
Otherwise you/he/she can be stopping, as the wind of inclement north. But,