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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: while a faint crimson mantled on her cheek; addingv falteringly, after a pause, I think St will love me yet The Dentist and the Comedian. . Friday, ?18?. A ludicrous contretems happened to-day, which I wish I could describe as forcibly as it struck me. Mr., the well-known comedian, with whom I was on terms of intimacy, after having suffered so severely from the toothache as to be prevented for two evenings from taking his part in the play, sent, under my direction, for Mons., a fashionable dentist, then but recently imported frora France. While I was sitting with my friend, endeavouring to screw his courage up to the stick- ing-place, monsieur arrived, duly furnished with the tools of his craft. The comedian sat down with a rueful visage, and eyed the dentist's formidable preparations with a piteous and disconcerted air. As soon as I had taken my station behind, for the purpose of holding the patient's head, the gum was lanced without much ado; but as the doomed tooth was a very formidable broad-rooted molar, monsieur prepared for a vigorous effort. He was just commencing the dreadful wrench, when he suddenly relaxed his hold, retired a step or two from his patient, and burst into a loud fit of laughter Up started the astounded comedian, and with clenched fists demanded furiously, What the d?1 he meant by such conduct ? The little bewhiskered foreigner, however, continued standing at a little distance, still so convulsed with laughter as to disregard the menacing movements of his patient; and exclaiming, Ah, mon Dieu ?ver good?ver good?bien ha, ha ?Be Gar, monsieur, you pull one such d d queer, extraordinaire comique face; be Gar, like one big fiddle or words to that effect. The dentist was right: Mr. 's features were odd enoug...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217166928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021716692X |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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