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I think Chapter 12th will be my favorite one… hoollyy

I think im starting to see why this book is highly regarded. That was so well written omg… scary.

Doctor Kimble (country apothecaries enjoyed that title without authority of diploma), was flitting about the room (..), and being welcomed everywhere as a doctor by hereditary right-not one of those miserable apothecaries who canvass for practice in strange neighbourhoods, and spend all their income in starving their one horse, but a man of substance, able to keep an extravagant table like the best of his patients.

“Silas said "Good-bye, and thank you kindly, as he opened the door for Dolly, but he couldn't help feeling relieved when she was gone - relieved that he might weave again and moan at his case. “

Wow, i think this was the first chapter i actually didn’t struggle to read. That was a nice change.

“Favorable Chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed to avow, and his mind will be bent on all the possible issues that may deliver him from the calculable results of that position.”

“And as memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile, Mr. Snell gradually recovered a vivid impression of the effect produced on him by the pedlars countenance and conversation. He had a "look with his eye" which fell unpleasantly on Mr. Snell's sensitive organism.“

Whats going on with the pregnancies…

“By this pregnant speech the farrier had re-established his self-complacency, and waited with confidence to hear himself named as one of the superlatively sensible men.”

By his what speech..?

"And you're a doctor, I reckon, though you're only a cow-doctor-for a fly's a fly though it may be a hoss-fly," concluded Mr. Macey, wondering a little at his own “cuteness."

“But where's the use o' talking?—you can't think what goes on in a 'cute man's inside."”