'Don't disturb him.'
'Oh, bother the old wictim, Mrs Chuzzlewit,' replied that zealous lady,
'I ain't no patience with him. You give him his own way too much by
half. A worritin' wexagious creetur!'
No doubt with the view of carrying out the precepts she enforced, and
'bothering the old wictim' in practice as well as in theory, Mrs Gamp
took him by the collar of his coat, and gave him some dozen or two of
hearty shakes backward and forward in his chair; that exercise being
considered by the disciples of the Prig school of nursing (who are very
numerous among professional ladies) as exceedingly conducive to repose,
and highly beneficial to the performance of the nervous functions.
Its effect in this instance was to render the patient so giddy and
addle-headed, that he could say nothing more; which Mrs Gamp regarded as
the triumph of her art.
'There!' she said, loosening the old man's cravat, in consequence of his
being rather black in the face, after this scientific treatment. 'Now,
I hope, you're easy in your mind. If you should turn at all faint we
can soon rewive you, sir, I promige you.
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