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118 A NEW PATIENT. ing in his chair. He would have given much really to be able to look on this attachment as a piece of youthful folly, and to tear the two asunder in the name of reason and common sense. That most beautiful and sacred privilege of youth, a spontaneous, soaring passion, heedless of hin- drances, and oblivious of worldly possibilities, Arno Raven had never enjoyed or cared to enjoy. He had put from him the dream of love and happiness, while love and happiness were the just appanage of his years; his ambitious plans left him no time to indulge in dreaming. Now, in the autumn of his life, the fair vision rose before him, golden, ethereal, spreading about him its soft, delusive shimmer, tak- ing his best strength captive, until he suddenly awoke, and found himself in the presence of a stern, cruel reality. Youth yearns after youth, and the middle-aged man, at the very zenith of his success and greatness, looked from his lonely height on the waste desolate tract around. Per- haps in this hour he would have given his hardly- won success and all the sweets of power only to be young again. CHAPTER VIII. A NEW PATIENT. Dr. Max Brunnow learned from his friend’s mouth the sentence of banishment passed on him by Coun- cilor Moser; he treated the whole subject, however, with most unbecoming levity. “] positively should have gone again,” he said, laughing. “That excellent old gentleman, with his bureaucratic majesty of demeanor and _ his pro- digious cravat, is a sight worth seeing, and the girl is really in want of medical advice; I can under- stand that ‘the most loyal subject of his most gracious majesty’ should banish my father’s son from the precincts of his home, but it is a pity my practice in R—— should be thus summarily brought toanend. It promised to be, if not remunerative, at least amusing.” Eomichooks.co