"
"Give us your company and your friendship," said Mrs. Dodd; "we value
them above gold: we will not rob your dear children, while we have as
many fingers on our hands as other people."
On the present occasion Dr. Sampson, whose affectionate respect for the
leading London physicians has already displayed itself, was inveighing
specially against certain specialists, whom, in the rapidity of his lusty
eloquence, he called the Mad Ox. He favoured Julia and Edward with a full
account of the maniform enormities he had detected them in during thirty
years' practice; and so descended to his present grievance. A lady, an
old friend of his, was being kept in a certain asylum month after month
because she had got money and relations, and had once been delirious.
"And why was she delirious? because she had a brain fever, she got well
in a fortnight." This lady had thrown a letter over the wall addressed to
him; somebody had posted it: he had asked the Commissioners to let him
visit her; they had declined for the present. "Yon Board always sides
with the strong against the weak," said he.
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