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Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle
by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

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Title: Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle

Author: Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

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GREEN TEA

1871

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MR. JUSTICE HARBOTTLE

1872

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By

Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

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GREEN TEA

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PROLOGUE

Martin Hesselius, the German Physician

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painfu

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