Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 186: what you’re looking at

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| CHAPTER XXI. | HELENA RECEIVES AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR. Sir Henry Harwood and Perey Morton, M. D., be- came associated in business from that day. Percy returned to Kingston where he remained just long enough to settle his affairs, then repaired to London and took his station in the handsome office of the eminent city physician. Sir Henry had been very strongly attracted to him during their first meeting at Osterly Park. He saw at once that he was a young man of no ordinary talent, and that he bade fair to stand in the front rank in his profession. -It had been a deep disappointment to the great physician that his son, Charlie, had not shown a taste for the study of medicine, for it had been the’ -hepe of his life that he would eventually succeed to his practice and position; but since it was dis- tasteful to him, and he had preferred the law, he would not attempt to force his inclinations and had afforded him every facility to fit himself for the bar, and he gave great promise of becoming prominent as a barrister. But as Sir Henry grew older, he found that his practice, Which was constantly increasing, was be- A opaicag ba Leber 9 <= abe ne ees and he new that he must either relinquish a portion,of. or secure an associate. He chose the qiter OUFSe