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to fetch the frock. She rose to her feet pale
with rage and said that she had never heard of
such a thing. I said it was very likely. She
had told me there was nothing she would not
give me. I had chosen the frock for reasons of
my own. She burst into tears and rushed out
of the room. A week later I met the English
Ambassador’s wife at the Swedish Legation. This
kind lady told me that she had not forgotten the
consumptive English governess I had
recommended to her, she had even sent her an invitation
to her garden-party for the English colony.
“No doubt she looks very ill,” said the
ambassadress, “but surely she cannot be as poor as
you say, I am sure she gets her clothes from
Worth.”
I much resented Norstrom’s saying that my
inability to write bills and to pocket my fee
without blushing derived from vanity and
conceit. If Norstrom was right I must admit that all
my colleagues seemed singularly free from this
defect. They all sent their bills just as tailors
do, and grabbed with greatest ease the louis d’or
their patients put in their hands. In many
consulting rooms it was even the etiquette that the
patient should put his money on the table before
opening his mouth to relate his woes. Before an
operation it was the established rule that half of
the sum should be paid in advance. I knew of
a case where the patient was roused from the
chloroform and the operation postponed in order
to verify the validity of a cheque. When one of
us smaller lights called in a celebrity for
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