I shall have you disputing with me one of these
days on points of my profession. You can already account for
muscular motion, I warrant, and explain the mystery of the brain
and nerves--ha! You are too learned for me, d--n me. But let's have
no more of this stuff. Can you blood and give a clyster, spread a
plaster, and prepare a potion?" Upon my answering in the affirmative,
he shock his head, telling me, he believed he should have little
good of me, for all my promises; but, however, he would take me in
for the sake of charity. I was accordingly that very night admitted
to his house, and had an apartment assigned to me in the garret,
which I was fain to put up with, notwithstanding the mortification
my pride suffered in this change of circumstances.
I was soon convinced of the real motives which induced Crab to
receive me in this manner; for, besides the gratification of his
revenge, by exposing the selfishness of his antagonist, in opposition
to his own generosity, which was all affectation, he had occasion
for a young man who understood something of the profession, to fill
up the place of his eldest apprentice, lately dead, not without
violent suspicion of foul play from his master's brutality.
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