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I am the doctor who is sometimes spoken of in rather unflattering terms in this novel. Anyone familiar with psychoanalysis will know to what he should attribute my patient's hostility.
You can be annoyed as you like but if you think that the last 50 years has been "mainly thin" then I think you need to think again (only one FA Cup and only one major European trophy? Well maybe your standards are higher).
LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
And this ..
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.