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The physician might not have deemed his friend so sensible -- or so insensible -- had he known that the young man proposed to make the offer of that allowance in person. Nor to Sir George Soane himself, when he alighted five days later before The George Inn at Wallingford, did the offer seem the light and easy thing,
'Of smiles and tears compact,'