Flow Willie made a Bird of Agnes. .177

 

the feeling in your own mirror; and to be a good
doctor, one must love to heal; must honour the
art of the. physician and rejoice in it; must give
himself to it, that he may learn all of it-that he
can—from its root of love to its branches of theory,
and its leaves and fruits of healing.

He always came home to Priory Leas for the
summer intervals, when you may be sure there was
great rejoicing—loudest on the part of Agnes, who
was then his constant companion, as much so, at
least, as she was allowed. Willie saw a good deal
of Mona Shepherd also, who had long been set free
from the oppressive charge of Janet, and was now
under the care of a governess, a wise, elderly lady ;
and as she was a great friend of Mrs Macmichael,
the two families were even more together now than
they had been in former years.

Of course, while at college he had no time to
work with his hands: all his labour there must be
with his head; but when he came home he had
plenty of time for both sorts. He spent a couple
of hours before breakfast in the study of physio-
logy ; after breakfast, another hour or two either
in the surgery, or in a part of the ruins which he
had roughly fitted up for a laboratory with a bench,
a few shelves, and a furnace. His father, however,
did not favour his being in the latter for a long
time together; for young experimenters are com-_
monly careless, and will often neglect proper pre-