Hay Fever Author:Walter Herries Pollock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Pettigood entered, and for his part regarded the bottle with a look of a different kind. Hope, indeed, there was in it, but it was very far subse... more »rvient to a darkling suspicion. He was in truth considering whether he should again urge upon his master that atavian remedy which at least could do no harm, whereas who knew what mischief might not lurk in this strange drug ? However, a look at Mr. Tempest's eager and determined expression of face availed to restrain him. So he watched the stockbroker as he took the wrapper off the mysterious bottle. " Let us see now, Pettigood," said Mr. Tempest ; " one must not expect too much. Sir George said that he would not and could not call it a specific." Perhaps he expected here some .sign of encouragement, which was not forthcoming, from his clerk, for it was with rather an overbearingair, as if he had suddenly become counsel opposing himself, that he continued:— " But, on the other hand, he did say that it sometimes worked marvellous cures, hey, Petti- good?" Pettigood still maintained a morne silence, and Mr. Tempest talked, almost rattled on :— " So that we may really hope for some little good effect—don't you think so, Pettigood, don't you think so ?" And this time he was so insistent that the confidential clerk felt compelled to reply; which he did in these uncomfortable words :— " I trust, sir, that the result may be as fortunate as you appear to anticipate." "Ah, Pettigood!" rejoined the stockbroker, " you were always a bit of a croaker, but at any rate there's no harm in trying. Now, let me see. What is the amount for a dose ? " And with this he looked again more scrutinisingly at the bottle. "Why, good gracious!" he cried, " there's a great blob of sealing-wax fallen on the directions. Do you...« less