Lucius Davoren, Volume II

There was plenty of work for Lucius in his surgery when he went home, after inducting Mr. Otranto's men in their duties at Cedar House. There were the medicines to be made up, and to be taken round to the patients that night, by the sleepy boy, who looked unutterable reproaches at his master for this unwonted neglect of duty.

‘Some of the places will be shut, I should think,' he said with an injured air, as he ground some nauseous drug furiously with a stone pestle; ‘and some of the folks gone to bed. We've never been so late before.'