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FORTUNE AND MARRIAGE. 81 would admitof. “I have always kept aloof from worldly amusements. They are sinful, and 1 de- test them.” “Well, well, you should try them before you make up your mind,” said the doctor, kindly. “But such advice hardly comes within my professional competence. I will give you a prescription for the present, and see you again in the course of a few days. Have you paper and pen and ink at hand?” Christine brought the necessary implements, and he sat down to write. Agnes had taken refuge by the window, where she stood with folded palms, and a look of consternation on her pale face. When the prescription was finished, Max came up to her again, and unceremoniously disengaged the folded hands to feel her pulse once more. “Yes; now follow my instructions carefully, and there will. | hope, be an improvement before long. Good-morning, fraulein.” So saying, he left the room. Christine closed the entrance-door behind him, and then came back. “He knows what he is about,” said she. “He orders and dictates as though noone else had a right to say a word here. What do you think of the doctor, fraulein >?” “T think him very irreligious,” declared the young lady, emphatically. “Ah, yes; none of your medical men are over- pious,” remarked Christine. “And so young!” went on Agnes, in a tone which implied the weightiest accusation. “T expected to see an older man myself, but he looks clever, and he certainly is very punctual. He had promised to be here at nine, and on the stroke of nine there he was outside in the corridor. I can’t think where your papais! Something must have happened to detain him, for he wished to be present at the interview.” “The doctor said he had spoken to my father. Do you think I ought to take the medicine, Christine?” “Of course you must take it. That is what we had the doctor here for. I like him, in spite of that <S (E(0) Eomichboo