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The young gentleman thanked him graciously, and said kindly to Maxley,
"Get that made up--here's a guinea--and I'll send somebody to see how you
are to-morrow."
The poor man took the guinea, and the prescription, and his head drooped
again, and he slouched away.
Dr. Wycherley remarked significantly that his conduct was worth imitating
by _all persons similarly situated:_ and concluded oracularly:
"Prophylaxis is preferable to therapeusis."
"Or, as _Porson_ would say, 'Prevention is better than cure.'"
With this parting blow the Oxonian suddenly sauntered away, unconscious,
it seemed, of the existence of his companions.
"I never saw a plainer case of Incubation," remarked Dr. Wycherley with
vast benevolence of manner.
"Maxley's?"
"Oh, no; that is parochial. It is your profoundly interesting son I
alluded to. Did you notice his supercilious departure? _And his morbid
celerity of repartee?_"
Mr. Hardie replied with some little hesitation, "Yes; and, excuse me, I
thought he had rather the best of the battle with you."
"Indubitably so," replied Dr.


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