Wycherley.
"His unreasonable passion for a girl he knows he can never marry makes
him somewhat crotchety and cranky: that, and over-study, may have
unhinged his mind a little. Suppose I send him abroad? My good brother
will find the means; or we could advance it him, I and the other
trustees; he comes into ten thousand pounds in a month or two."
The doctors exchanged a meaning look. They then dissuaded him earnestly
from the idea of Continental travel.
"Coelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt," said Wycherley, and
Osmond explained that Alfred would brood abroad as well as at home, if he
went alone; and Dr. Wycherley summed up thus: "The most advisable course
is to give him the benefit of the personal superintendence of some
skilful physician possessed of means and appliances of every sort for
soothing and restraining the specific malady.
Mr. Hardie did not at first see the exact purport of this oleaginous
periphrasis. Presently he caught a glimpse; but said he thought
confinement was hardly the thing to drive away melancholy.
"Not in all respects," replied Dr.
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