Peregrine's Prize
“One with a question in his eyes, and the other two with different degrees of condemnation. Ah well.
"Gussie who?" Doctor Nicholls asked.
"A female you know might have done this?" he sounded scandalized.
"A gentlewoman?" "Not much gentle about her," Nash said grimly. "She's a hard headed determined virago, with a temper to strip the lead off the church roof if crossed. And The Grettons have done rather a lot of that lately." He paused and rolled his eyes. "Crossing her, not stripping lead. Oh hell, the tell all tongue seems to have infiltrated me as well." The doctor pushed himself off the wall. "Well as he hasn't screamed, passed out, or foamed at the mouth, I daresay telling him a bit more won't do any harm now, even if it doesn't do any good. The mind is a mysterious thing, which we know little about. I've seen it before, this blankness of the mind." "Does the blankness lift?" Perry asked him, with the strain in his voice evident.
Doctor Nicholls touched his shoulder.
"Sometimes. So...metimes not.MoreLess
"Gussie who?" Doctor Nicholls asked.
"A female you know might have done this?" he sounded scandalized.
"A gentlewoman?" "Not much gentle about her," Nash said grimly. "She's a hard headed determined virago, with a temper to strip the lead off the church roof if crossed. And The Grettons have done rather a lot of that lately." He paused and rolled his eyes. "Crossing her, not stripping lead. Oh hell, the tell all tongue seems to have infiltrated me as well." The doctor pushed himself off the wall. "Well as he hasn't screamed, passed out, or foamed at the mouth, I daresay telling him a bit more won't do any harm now, even if it doesn't do any good. The mind is a mysterious thing, which we know little about. I've seen it before, this blankness of the mind." "Does the blankness lift?" Perry asked him, with the strain in his voice evident.
Doctor Nicholls touched his shoulder.
"Sometimes. So...metimes not.MoreLess
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