His Other Wife: A Novel — page 333: what you’re looking at

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FATHER LOUIS’? EXPERIMENT. 325 and only after I had produced proofs of my sacred pro- fession and my scientific experiments, which had been duly reported in certain journals of medical art.” ‘‘ What were the uses to which you applied the drug?” “YT prepared a portion of it in a diluted form, and experimented with it upon a delicate greyhound, whose life was of great value to me, yet which I was willing to sacrifice in order to test the qualities of the drug, and add something to the cause of science and humanity.” ‘“‘ What were the results of your experiment?” ‘‘First allow me to state that the animal in question seemed in all respects a subject of rare fitness for such a purpose. Its extremely sensitive organism and delicate structure, together with its rearing and habits, made it approach as nearly as possible to the human species in point of physical sensibility. Its food, drink, and lodgings had been the same as my own, almost from its birth, and its sagacity was something that bordered on intellectuality. ‘It was not without a wrenching of the heart, believe me, that I determined on devoting this, the sole com- panion of lonely life and arduous labors, to what I con- ceived to be my duty to humanity.” Here Father Louis paused a moment; his face had grown paler, and his lip was not so quiet and firm as it had been; but, in a few seconds, he went on: ‘I proceeded to reduce the already delicate physical condition of my hound, by the use of depleting medicines, Comichoo Ss. (E(@)