"
"Only the _best_ thing will make her well; but all true things tend to
healing."
"But how is it that you have such notions--so different from those of
the mass of your professional brethren?"
"Oh!" said he, laughing, "if you really want an answer, be it known to
all men that I am a student of Van Helmont."
He turned away, laughing; and I, knowing nothing of Van Helmont, could
not tell whether he was in jest or in earnest.
At dinner some remark was made about the sermon, I think by our host.
"You don't call that the gospel!" said Mrs. Cathcart, with a smile.
"Why, what do you call it, Jane?"
"I don't know that I am bound to put a name upon it. I should,
however, call it pantheism."
"Might I ask you, madam, what you understand by _pantheism_?"
"Oh! neology, and all that sort of thing."
"And neology is--?"
"Really, Mr. Smith, a dinner-table is not the most suitable place in
the world for theological discussion."
"I quite agree with you, madam," I responded, astonished at my own
boldness.--I was not quite so much afraid of her after this, although
I had an instinctive sense that she did not at all like me. But Percy
was delighted to see his mother discomfited, and laughed into his
plate.
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