"
"I haven't any complaints, Jerry," I said. "It's only to please
Cissie."
'"I know that as well as you do, dearie," he said. And - and
that was all that came of my going to give him a flogging. I
wonder whether he made poor Troubadour shy when I lashed at
him? Jerry has his ways of getting even with people.'
'I wonder,' said Una. 'Well, did you try the charm? Did it work?'
'What nonsense! I told Rene about it, of course, because he's a
doctor. He's going to be a most famous doctor. That's why our
doctor hates him. Rene said, "Oho! Your Master Gamm, he is
worth knowing," and he put up his eyebrows -like this. He made
joke of it all. He can see my window from the carpenter's shed,
where he works, and if ever the maple stick fell down, he
pretended to be in a fearful taking till I propped the window up
again. He used to ask me whether I had said my Apostles
properly, and how I took my deep breaths. Oh yes, and the next
day, though he had been there ever so many times before, he put
on his new hat and paid Jerry Gamm a visit of state - as a
fellow-physician. Jerry never guessed Rene was making fun of
him, and so he told Rene about the sick people in the village, and
how he cured them with herbs after Doctor Break had given them
up.
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