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In
the
course
of
the
year
,
however
,
there
had
been
a
change
in
the
public
sentiment
,
of
which
the
unanimity
at
Dollop
’
s
was
an
index
A
good
deal
more
than
a
year
ago
,
before
anything
was
known
of
Lydgate
’
s
skill
,
the
judgments
on
it
had
naturally
been
divided
,
depending
on
a
sense
of
likelihood
,
situated
perhaps
in
the
pit
of
the
stomach
or
in
the
pineal
gland
,
and
differing
in
its
verdicts
,
but
not
the
less
valuable
as
a
guide
in
the
total
deficit
of
evidence
.
Patients
who
had
chronic
diseases
or
whose
lives
had
long
been
worn
threadbare
,
like
old
Featherstone
’
s
,
had
been
at
once
inclined
to
try
him
;
also
,
many
who
did
not
like
paying
their
doctor
’
s
bills
,
thought
agreeably
of
opening
an
account
with
a
new
doctor
and
sending
for
him
without
stint
if
the
children
’
s
temper
wanted
a
dose
,
occasions
when
the
old
practitioners
were
often
crusty
;
and
all
persons
thus
inclined
to
employ
Lydgate
held
it
likely
that
he
was
clever
.
Some
considered
that
he
might
do
more
than
others
"
where
there
was
liver
;
"
—
at
least
there
would
be
no
harm
in
getting
a
few
bottles
of
"
stuff
"
from
him
,
since
if
these
proved
useless
it
would
still
be
possible
to
return
to
the
Purifying
Pills
,
which
kept
you
alive
if
they
did
not
remove
the
yellowness
.
But
these
were
people
of
minor
importance
.
Good
Middlemarch
families
were
of
course
not
going
to
change
their
doctor
without
reason
shown
;
and
everybody
who
had
employed
Mr
.
Peacock
did
not
feel
obliged
to
accept
a
new
man
merely
in
the
character
of
his
successor
,
objecting
that
he
was
"
not
likely
to
be
equal
to
Peacock
.
"
But
Lydgate
had
not
been
long
in
the
town
before
there
were
particulars
enough
reported
of
him
to
breed
much
more
specific
expectations
and
to
intensify
differences
into
partisanship
;
some
of
the
particulars
being
of
that
impressive
order
of
which
the
significance
is
entirely
hidden
,
like
a
statistical
amount
without
a
standard
of
comparison
,
but
with
a
note
of
exclamation
at
the
end
.
The
cubic
feet
of
oxygen
yearly
swallowed
by
a
full
-
grown
man
—
what
a
shudder
they
might
have
created
in
some
Middlemarch
circles
!
"
Oxygen
!
nobody
knows
what
that
may
be
—
is
it
any
wonder
the
cholera
has
got
to
Dantzic
?
And
yet
there
are
people
who
say
quarantine
is
no
good
!
"
One
of
the
facts
quickly
rumored
was
that
Lydgate
did
not
dispense
drugs
.
This
was
offensive
both
to
the
physicians
whose
exclusive
distinction
seemed
infringed
on
,
and
to
the
surgeon
-
apothecaries
with
whom
he
ranged
himself
;
and
only
a
little
while
before
,
they
might
have
counted
on
having
the
law
on
their
side
against
a
man
who
without
calling
himself
a
London
-
made
M
.
D
.
dared
to
ask
for
pay
except
as
a
charge
on
drugs
.
But
Lydgate
had
not
been
experienced
enough
to
foresee
that
his
new
course
would
be
even
more
offensive
to
the
laity
;
and
to
Mr
.
Mawmsey
,
an
important
grocer
in
the
Top
Market
,
who
,
though
not
one
of
his
patients
,
questioned
him
in
an
affable
manner
on
the
subject
,
he
was
injudicious
enough
to
give
a
hasty
popular
explanation
of
his
reasons
,
pointing
out
to
Mr
.
Mawmsey
that
it
must
lower
the
character
of
practitioners
,
and
be
a
constant
injury
to
the
public
,
if
their
only
mode
of
getting
paid
for
their
work
was
by
their
making
out
long
bills
for
draughts
,
boluses
,
and
mixtures
.
"
It
is
in
that
way
that
hard
-
working
medical
men
may
come
to
be
almost
as
mischievous
as
quacks
,
"
said
Lydgate
,
rather
thoughtlessly
.
"
To
get
their
own
bread
they
must
overdose
the
king
’
s
lieges
;
and
that
’
s
a
bad
sort
of
treason
,
Mr
.
Mawmsey
—
undermines
the
constitution
in
a
fatal
way
.
"
Mr
.
Mawmsey
was
not
only
an
overseer
(
it
was
about
a
question
of
outdoor
pay
that
he
was
having
an
interview
with
Lydgate
)
,
he
was
also
asthmatic
and
had
an
increasing
family
:
thus
,
from
a
medical
point
of
view
,
as
well
as
from
his
own
,
he
was
an
important
man
;
indeed
,
an
exceptional
grocer
,
whose
hair
was
arranged
in
a
flame
-
like
pyramid
,
and
whose
retail
deference
was
of
the
cordial
,
encouraging
kind
—
jocosely
complimentary
,
and
with
a
certain
considerate
abstinence
from
letting
out
the
full
force
of
his
mind
.
It
was
Mr
.
Mawmsey
’
s
friendly
jocoseness
in
questioning
him
which
had
set
the
tone
of
Lydgate
’
s
reply
.
But
let
the
wise
be
warned
against
too
great
readiness
at
explanation
:
it
multiplies
the
sources
of
mistake
,
lengthening
the
sum
for
reckoners
sure
to
go
wrong
.
Lydgate
smiled
as
he
ended
his
speech
,
putting
his
foot
into
the
stirrup
,
and
Mr
.
Mawmsey
laughed
more
than
he
would
have
done
if
he
had
known
who
the
king
’
s
lieges
were
,
giving
his
"
Good
morning
,
sir
,
good
-
morning
,
sir
,
"
with
the
air
of
one
who
saw
everything
clearly
enough
.
But
in
truth
his
views
were
perturbed
.
For
years
he
had
been
paying
bills
with
strictly
made
items
,
so
that
for
every
half
-
crown
and
eighteen
-
pence
he
was
certain
something
measurable
had
been
delivered
.
He
had
done
this
with
satisfaction
,
including
it
among
his
responsibilities
as
a
husband
and
father
,
and
regarding
a
longer
bill
than
usual
as
a
dignity
worth
mentioning
.
Moreover
,
in
addition
to
the
massive
benefit
of
the
drugs
to
"
self
and
family
,
"
he
had
enjoyed
the
pleasure
of
forming
an
acute
judgment
as
to
their
immediate
effects
,
so
as
to
give
an
intelligent
statement
for
the
guidance
of
Mr
.
Gambit
—
a
practitioner
just
a
little
lower
in
status
than
Wrench
or
Toller
,
and
especially
esteemed
as
an
accoucheur
,
of
whose
ability
Mr
.
Mawmsey
had
the
poorest
opinion
on
all
other
points
,
but
in
doctoring
,
he
was
wont
to
say
in
an
undertone
,
he
placed
Gambit
above
any
of
them
.
Here
were
deeper
reasons
than
the
superficial
talk
of
a
new
man
,
which
appeared
still
flimsier
in
the
drawing
-
room
over
the
shop
,
when
they
were
recited
to
Mrs
.
Mawmsey
,
a
woman
accustomed
to
be
made
much
of
as
a
fertile
mother
—
generally
under
attendance
more
or
less
frequent
from
Mr
.
Gambit
,
and
occasionally
having
attacks
which
required
Dr
.
Minchin
.
