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Excerpt from The Year of Miracle: A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred
Rebelspear was anxious, terribly anxious, there was no doubt of that, for he had now been waiting many months for the incoming of patients, but as yet none had responded to the mute appeal of that brand-new brass plate which so eloquently declared the inexperience of its owner. After finishing his medical education, and obtaining his licence to kill or cure, he had found himself a fully qt'alified MD. With comparatively little money at his disposal. The rent, rates, taxes, and furnishings of the respectable - looking house in Weymouth Street, the constant paying out and nothing coming in, had reduced that comparatively little to almost next to nothing and as civilised man cannot live without a certain amount of capital, Dr. Rebelspear's future looked very gloomy indeed.
He was young - just turned thirty he was clever - proved by mmdry mystical letters tailing after his mame; he was hopeful - widelt'cet the sprat-to-catch-a-mackerel house in Weymouth Street but notwithstanding all these encouraging qualifications, it seemed as though this poor young man would be worsted in his encounter with the world. There were many, many doctors, and, as a compensatory law, 'there were many, many patients but he was one of the many for mer, and these many latter did not come his way. So, as he could not forcibly drag them into his consulting-room, he had to sit there biting his nails and waiting - waiting for nothing, it appeared to him, unless it was the dawn of the twentieth century.
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