item: #1 of 10 id: 12387 author: MacDonald, George title: Paul Faber, Surgeon date: None words: 171897 flesch: 82 summary: It may be difficult to keep such men out of holy orders, but if ever the benefices of the church come to be freely bestowed upon them, that moment the death-bell of religion is rung in England. While such men keep to barns and conventicles we can despise them, but when they creep into the fold, then there is just cause for alarm. keywords: away; believe; child; church; curate; day; death; doctor; door; dorothy; doubt; drake; eyes; faber; face; fact; faith; father; god; going; good; half; hand; heart; helen; help; home; hope; house; human; husband; juliet; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; mind; minister; moment; money; morning; mrs; nature; paul; people; place; polwarth; poor; read; rector; right; room; rose; self; set; soul; thee; thing; thought; time; truth; water; way; wife; wingfold; woman; words; work; world cache: 12387.txt plain text: 12387.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 14211 author: Ford, Paul Leicester title: Wanted—A Match Maker date: None words: 16256 flesch: 82 summary: Meanwhile Miss Durant thoughtfully went down the steps to her carriage, so abstracted from what she was doing that after the footman tucked the fur robe about her feet, he stood waiting for his orders; and finally, realising his mistress's unconsciousness, touched his hat and asked,-- Where to, Miss Constance? Wanted - A Matchmaker by Paul Leicester Ford [Illustration: 'Why, Swot,' cried Constance, 'nobody is going to kill you'] Contents ======== Contents Illustrations Wanted: A Match-Maker -*- To Bond and Edith Thomas as a Record of Our Friendship Illustrations ============= 'Why, Swot,' cried Constance, 'nobody is going to kill you' Miss Durant sprang out and lifted the head gently Constance took the seat at the bedside 'I have come here--I have intruded on you, Miss Durant,' hurriedly began the doctor The two were quickly seated on the floor Wanted: A Match-Maker ===================== You understand, Josie, that I wouldn't for a moment wish Constance to marry without being in love, but-- Mrs. Durant hesitated long enough to convey the inference that she was unfeminine enough to place a value on her own words, and then, the pause having led to a change, or, at least, modification of what had almost found utterance, she continued, with a touch of petulance which suggested that the general principle had in the mind of the speaker a special application, It is certainly a great pity that the modern girl should be so unimpressionable! I understand and sympathise with you perfectly, dear, consolingly acceded Mrs. Ferguson. keywords: = =; armstrong; boy; carriage; constance; dat; doctor; durant; girl; hand; ise; miss; oin't; swot; time; youse cache: 14211.txt plain text: 14211.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 15482 author: Sawyer, Ruth title: The Primrose Ring date: None words: 34699 flesch: 82 summary: So well did everything succeed that Margaret MacLean was up and out of Saint Margaret's a full half-hour earlier than usual, her heart singing antiphonally with the birds outside. Margaret MacLean found the door of the board-room ajar, and, glancing in, looked square into the eyes of the Founder of Saint Margaret's, where he hung in his great gold frame--silent and questioning. keywords: believe; board; bridget; children; day; eyes; faery; good; hands; house; house surgeon; life; look; maclean; margaret; margaret maclean; president; room; saint; saint margaret; sandy; surgeon; things; think; time; trustee; ward; way cache: 15482.txt plain text: 15482.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 22866 author: Nourse, Alan Edward title: An Ounce of Cure date: None words: 1419 flesch: 89 summary: Mr. Wheatley rubbed his toe and waited. Now, there's nothing to be worried about, Mr. Wheatley, he said. keywords: doctor; wheatley cache: 22866.txt plain text: 22866.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 26206 author: Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) title: Pandemic date: None words: 6932 flesch: 88 summary: What I was trying to say, Dr. Kramer said into the silence that followed, is that if you have Thurston's Disease, you've been a carrier for at least two weeks. Dr. Kramer pressed a button on the console in front of him. keywords: disease; kramer; lab; mary; people; right; room; table; thurston; virus cache: 26206.txt plain text: 26206.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 26883 author: Greenfield, Taylor H. title: The Sword and the Atopen date: None words: 3650 flesch: 71 summary: General Loomis and his staff called up daily to inquire if Dr. Rutledge had any change of plans. The idea of using foreign proteins on the human system to repel enemies, is also interesting. keywords: enemy; general; loomis; protein; rutledge; time cache: 26883.txt plain text: 26883.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 28922 author: Smith, Richard Rein title: Compatible date: None words: 1280 flesch: 90 summary: Every now and then, Helen would float by, a gorgeous creature, laughing at George's jokes, mixing our drinks, and smiling at George as if he were the most wonderful man in the world. I didn't like to hear a person's personal problems and every time I visited George, he invariably complained about Helen. keywords: george; helen cache: 28922.txt plain text: 28922.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 423 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life date: None words: 69670 flesch: 87 summary: Said he would call on you and bring you, but when the wife got worse of course I inquired for you and sent for you direct. Old man Plunket goes too much to the Arcady Saloon, said he. keywords: bellingham; case; chair; course; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; good; great; grey; half; hand; head; heart; house; johnson; lady; lee; left; life; look; lord; man; matter; medical; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; patient; professor; red; right; room; round; saw; sir; smith; stone; surgeon; table; tell; thing; thought; time; way; white; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 423.txt plain text: 423.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 50999 author: Leinster, Murray title: Med Ship Man date: None words: 15004 flesch: 85 summary: Med Ship men like Calhoun offered advice on public-health problems. I Calhoun regarded the communicator with something like exasperation as his taped voice repeated a standard approach-call for the twentieth time. keywords: allison; calhoun; car; cars; cattle; city; fence; ground; maya; med; men; miles; murgatroyd; people; power; ship cache: 50999.txt plain text: 50999.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 60412 author: Nourse, Alan Edward title: Rx date: None words: 4734 flesch: 88 summary: As a couple of cowering guards crept in to remove the braziers, Red Doctor Jenkins drew the wizard aside. Red Doctor Sam Jenkins took one look at the flashing blinker and slammed the controls into automatic; gyros hummed, bearings were computed and checked, and the General Practice Patrol ship _Lancet_ spun in its tracks, so to speak, and began homing on the call-source like a hound on a fox. keywords: aguar; contract; doctor; earth; eminence; jenkins; kiz; son cache: 60412.txt plain text: 60412.txt