Excerpt: ...doorway. "Father will be free-presently," said she. "He has another patient with him. If you don't care to wait, perhaps I can look after the cut. Father said it was a trifle." Arthur slipped his arm out of the sling. "In here," said Madelene, opening the door of a small room to the left of her father's consultation room. Arthur entered. "This is your office?" he asked, looking round curiously, admiringly. It certainly was an interesting room, as the habitat of an interesting personality is bound to be. "Yes," ...
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Excerpt: ...doorway. "Father will be free-presently," said she. "He has another patient with him. If you don't care to wait, perhaps I can look after the cut. Father said it was a trifle." Arthur slipped his arm out of the sling. "In here," said Madelene, opening the door of a small room to the left of her father's consultation room. Arthur entered. "This is your office?" he asked, looking round curiously, admiringly. It certainly was an interesting room, as the habitat of an interesting personality is bound to be. "Yes," she replied. "Sit here, please." Arthur seated himself in the chair by the window and rested his arm on the table. He thought he had never seen fingers so long as hers, or so graceful. Evidently she had inherited from her father that sure, firm touch which is perhaps the highest talent of the surgeon. "It seems such an-an-such a hard profession for a woman," said he, to induce those fascinating lips of hers to move. "It isn't soft," she replied. "But then father hasn't brought us up soft." This was discouraging, but Arthur tried again. "You like it?" "I love it," said she, and now her eyes were a delight. "It makes me hate to go to bed at night, and eager to get up in the morning. And that means really living, doesn't it?" "A man like me must seem to you a petty sort of creature." "Oh, I haven't any professional haughtiness," was her laughing reply. "One kind of work seems to me just as good as another. It's the spirit of the workman that makes the only differences." "That's it," said Arthur, with a humility which he thought genuine and which was perhaps not wholly false. "I don't seem to be able to give my heart to my work." "I fancy you'll give it attention hereafter," suggested Madelene. She had dressed the almost healed finger and was dexterously rebandaging it. She was necessarily very near to him, and from her skin there seemed to issue a perfumed energy that stimulated his nerves. Their eyes met. Both smiled and flushed. "That...
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Very good. No dust jacket. 4 p.l., 334 p. front., plates. 19 cm. Includes Plates. Green cloth binding, gold title and decoration on spine. Light edgewear. A number is written and circled on first free endpage, otherwise unmarked.
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Good. Burgundy blindstamped cloth, white lettering and color photo tipped on front. 234 pages plus advertising, frontispiece and 3 other illustrations. Light edgewear; otherwise unmarked, clean, sound copy; 7.80 X 6.30 X 1.20 inches.
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Fair. Burgundy boards with faded white lettering, pastedown on front board, no dust jacket. Heavy rubbing, staining, bumping, and fraying to boards. Previous owner name to flyleaf has bled onto endpage. Tanning, staining, and some chipping to pages. Binding is brittle in places, back hinge is cracked. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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New in New jacket. Lang: -eng, Pages 364. It is the reprint edition of the original edition which was published long back (). The book is printed in black on high quality paper with Matt Laminated colored dust cover. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. We tried to manage the best possible copy but in some cases, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or with black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. Print on Demand.
