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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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"Bah!"
The
orator
caught
himself,
and
then
swept
on
again.
"Bah!"
said
the
Doctor.
By
this
time
the
audience
was
really
interested.
The
orator
stopped.
He
knew
the
Doctor,
and
he
should
have
known
better
than
to
say
what
he
did.
But
he
was
very
young
and
he
knew
the
Doctor
was
opposing
him.
"Perhaps,"
he
remarked
sarcastically,
"the
Doctor
can
make
a
better
speech
than
I
can."
The
Doctor
rose
instantly,
to
his
full
height--and
he
was
an
impressive-looking
man.
"Perhaps,"
he
said,
"I
can,
and
what
is
more,
I
will."
He
stood
up
on
a
chair
and
gave
them
a
talk
on
Patriotism--real
patriotism--the
patriotism
of
duty
done
in
the
small
concerns
of
life.
That
speech,
which
ended
the
political
career
of
the
orator,
is
not
forgotten
to-day.
One
thing
I
heard
to-day
about
the
old
Doctor
impressed
me
deeply.
I
have
been
thinking
about
it
ever
since:
it
illuminates
his
character
more
than
anything
I
have
heard.
It
is
singular,
too,
that
I
should
not
have
known
the
story
before.
I
don't
believe
it
was
because
it
all
happened
so
long
ago;
it
rather
remained
untold
out
of
deference
to
a
sort
of
neighbourhood
delicacy.
I
had,
indeed,
wondered
why
a
man
of
such
capacities,
so
many
qualities
of
real
greatness
and
power,
should
have
escaped
a
city
career.
I
said
something
to
this
effect
to
a
group
of
men
with
whom
I
was
talking
this
morning.
I
thought
they
exchanged
glances;
one
said:
"When
he
first
came
out
of
the
army
he'd
made
such
a
fine
record
as
a
surgeon
that
everyone-urged
him
to
go
to
the
city
and
practice----"
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