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THINGS
THINGS
BY
Alice Duer Miller
Author of “The Blue Arch,” “Calderon’s
Prisoner,” etc.
NEW YORK
Charles Scribner’s Sons
1914
Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner’s Sons
Published April, 1914
THINGS
THINGS
I
THE great alienist sat down athis desk, and having emptiedhis mind of all other impressions,held it up like a dipper for hisnew patient to fill. Large, blond,and handsome, she was plainly accustomedto being listened to. Beforeshe had fairly undone her fursand folded her hands within hermuff, the doctor’s lateral vision hadtold him that, whatever her problems,it was not about her own nervoussystem that she had come toconsult him.
Not too quickly her story began[4]to take shape. Her household, herhusband, her four children—threesmall boys and an older daughter, agirl of seventeen....
“My only thought has been mychildren, Dr. Despard.”