London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
LONDON UNDER DOCTOR'S ORDERS.
AS the season draws towards its close the stress and tear of the business of either work or pleasure begins to tell upon the average Londoner. A barrister well served with briefs, a doctor with a long list of patients, an editor, assisted by a large staff of contributors, have each in his way a good deal to do. As January is lost in Easter, and Whitsuntide is passed and forgotten in July, the longing for rest and recreation grows stronger and stronger. The wish becomes an earnest desire, when one's guide, philosopher and medical friend, Dr. Farren Farce, takes one by the arm, and looking one in the face through his benevolent spectacles, utters a remonstrance: | |
says the philanthropic physician, | |
So on the following morning one repairs to the pleasant mansion of the ablest of men and receives orders to be off to Cairo or the Canaries, Homburg or Harrogate, or if complacent, a tour round the world, beginning with the Cape. Whether the advice is taken or not is another affair. | |