SKETCH OF A CASE,

OR A PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF “A NEW HOME,” ETC.

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Doctor R—— sat alone in his study when a lady was announced.

“Mrs. Waldorf, sir,” and the doctor laid down his pen and received his visiter very cordially. She was the wife of a rich German merchant, and a distant cousin of his own; a handsome woman of about five and thirty, with sufficient repose of manner, but too spirited an eye to pass for a mere fashionable machine.