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82 FORTUNE AND MARRIAGE. bearish way of his. You mind what I say, Miss Agnes—he will set you all to rights again.” It remained doubtful whether Agnes herself shared this opinion, She had taken up the pre- scription, and was reading it. After a while she laid the paper down, and said, with a little shake of the head: “T only wish he were not so irreligious !” Max, going down the steps, met an elderly gentle- man coming up. This personage wore gold spec- tacles, carried a stick with a gold knob, and had about him an air of great importance. The young surgeon stopped, and looked after him. “T would wager my head that is my worthy col- league on his way to pay the promised visit. Now he will rack his brains to discover who can have been interfering with his practice, and snapping up apatient before his very nose. And then the wrath of that quintessence of loyalty, the solemn old councilor, when he hears the story, and sees my name on the prescription! It would be worth something to get a look at hisface. I wish I could introduce myself to him in my new capacity as his family doctor.” The mischievous wish was to be fulfilled. At the foot of the castle-hill Max met the councilor, who, as in duty bound, had accompanied ‘his ex- cellency’ to his destination, and was now on his road back. No sooner did he catcha glimpse of Brunnow, that ‘scion of socialists and dema- gogues,” than he endeavored to turn aside, and thus avoid the undesirable meeting. Max, how- ever, went straight up to him. “T am glad to have the chance of speaking to you again, councilor. Ihave just come from your daughter.” This time the old gentleman’s face emerged most suddenly from the folds of his white cravat. “from my daughter?” he repeated. “Yes, from Fraulein Moser. I can give you the comforting assurance that the young lady’s condi tion need inspire no serious apprehension, though Gomicbooks (E(0)