" He spoke laughingly,
but it was plain he was serious. He continued:
"People are always coming to me who want crossing, or change, if you
prefer it, and who I know have not money enough to let them get away
from London. This has set me thinking how I can best cross them even
if they cannot leave home, and I have made a list of cheap London
amusements which I recommend to my patients; none of them cost more
than a few shillings or take more than half a day or a day."
I explained that there was no occasion to consider money in this
case.
"I am glad it," he said, still laughing. "The homoeopathists use
aurum as a medicine, but they do not give it in large enough doses; if
you can dose your young friend with this pretty freely you will soon
bring him round. However, Mr. Pontifex is not well enough to stand
so great a change as going abroad yet; from what you tell me I
should think he had had as much change lately as is good for him. If
he were to go abroad now he would probably be taken seriously ill
within a week. We must wait till he has recovered tone a little
more. I will begin by ringing my London changes on him."
He thought a little and then said:
"I have found the Zoological Gardens of service to many of my
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