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The Doctor's Wife: A Novel
The story introduces us to George Gilbert, a young medical student from a small town, who is planning a holiday in London.
"The Doctor's Wife: A Novel" by M. E. Braddon is a work of fiction. The story introduces us to George Gilbert, a young medical student from a small town, who is planning a holiday in London.
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There were two surgeons in the little town of Graybridge-on-the-Wayverne, in pretty pastoral Midlandshire,—Mr. Pawlkatt, who lived in a big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street; and John Gilbert, the parish doctor, who lived in his own house on the outskirts of Graybridge, and worked very hard for a smaller income than that which the stylish Mr. Pawlkatt derived from his aristocratic patients.
John Gilbert was an elderly man, with a young son. He had married late in life, and his wife had died very soon after the birth of this son. It was for this reason, most likely, that the surgeon loved his child as children are rarely loved by their fathers—with an earnest, over-anxious devotion, which from the very first had been something womanly in its character, and which grew with the child's growth. Mr. Gilbert's mind was narrowed by the circle in which he lived. He had inherited his own patients and the parish patients from his father, who had been a surgeon before him, and who had lived in the same house, with the same red lamp over the little old-fashioned surgery-door, for eight-and-forty years, and had died, leaving the house, the practice, and the red lamp to his son.
Contents
- 01A Young Man from the Country
- 02A Sensation Author.
- 03Isabel.
- 04The End of George Gilbert's Holiday.
- 05George at Home.
- 06Too Much Alone.
- 07On the Bridge.
- 08About Poor Joe Tillet's Young Wife.
- 09Miss Sleaford's Engagement.
- 10A Bad Beginning.
- 11"She Only Said, 'My Life Is Weary!'"
- 12Something Like a Birthday.
- 13"Oh, My Cousin, Shallow-Hearted!"
- 14Under Lord Thurston's Oak.
- 15Roland Says, "Amen."
- 16Mr. Lansdell Relates an Adventure.
- 17The First Warning.
- 18The Second Warning.
- 19What Might Have Been!
- 20"Oceans Should Divide Us."
- 21"Once More the Gate Behind Me Falls."
- 22"My Love's a Noble Madness."
- 23A Little Cloud.
- 24Lady Gwendoline Does Her Duty.
- 25"For Love Himself Took Part Against Himself."
- 26A Popular Preacher.
- 27"And Now I Live, and Now My Life Is Done!"
- 28Trying to Be Good.
- 29The First Whisper of the Storm.
- 30The Beginning of a Great Change.
- 31Fifty Pounds.
- 32"I'll Not Believe but Desdemona's Honest."
- 33Keeping a Promise.
- 34Retrospective.
- 35"'Twere Best at Once to Sink to Peace."
- 36Between Two Worlds.
- 37"If Any Calm, a Calm Despair."
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 491 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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