"Because," replied James, "it is too awful to think of a person like that being let loose on everybody."
"A person!" echoed the doctor. "My dear girl, that was an awfully educated young man. He's an M.B.! and he's going to run the practice on dignified lines. What more can the beggars ask for their sixpences than real drugs and dignity?"
"Fatty," said his daughter, in a voice of cold resolve, "if you take me away from here, do you know what I shall do? I shall live with Aunt Isobel and go to school, and grow up to be a little lady."
"Ha!" cried the doctor, starting up.... "I'd forgotten you. Bring out the Burgundy.... We'll consider it."
THE END
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