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rabidsamfan"You wish me to buy a medical practice in Kensington?" Henry Verner scowled at me. "Perhaps your side of the family is willing to take foolish chances, but we have more sense in mine. It will be three years at least, more likely five, before I can afford anything in that district."
"I'm not asking you to pay for it," I said. "I can do that. Just to answer the advertisement and take over the care of the patients."
He hesitated, then asked, "How soon would I begin?"
"I don't know yet. I've still got to persuade him to sell."
"I'm not asking you to pay for it," I said. "I can do that. Just to answer the advertisement and take over the care of the patients."
He hesitated, then asked, "How soon would I begin?"
"I don't know yet. I've still got to persuade him to sell."
