When Victoria was young specialists had not been invented –the Family Doctor did you all over. You did not have a special doctor for each part. Dr. Helmcken attended to all our ailments–Father’s gout, our stomach-aches; he even told us what to do once when the cat had…
Medina’s Grove was a gentle place; its moist mildness softened even the starch in Father and begged the twinkle that sat behind his stern grey eyes to come out. The Grove had not the sombre weight that belongs to the forest, nor had it the bare coldness of…
Strange characters came to little Victoria. It seemed as if people who could not fit in anywhere else arrived here sooner or later till Victoria poked, bulged and hollowed over queer shapes of strange people, as a snake, swallowing its food whole, looks lumpy during digestion. Victoria had…
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