"What is the matter with you?" said his companion at length, "and why
did you look at me with such a singular gaze? I hope you do not feel
resentment at what I said. I hesitated to believe you only because I
thought you might be mistaken.".
"I entertain no resentment against you," replied Woodward; "but I must
confess I feel astonished. Pray, allow me to ask, sir, are you a medical
man?"
"Not at all," replied the other; "I never received a medical education,
and yet I perform a great number of cures."
"Then, sir," said Woodward, "I take it, with every respect, that you
must be a quack."
"Did you ever know a quack to work a cure without medicine?" replied the
other; "I cure without medicine, and that is more than the quack is able
to do with it; I consequently, cannot be a quack."
"Then, in the devil's name, what are you?" asked Woodward, who felt that
his extraordinary fellow-traveller was amusing himself at his expense.
"I reply to no interrogatory urged upon such authority," said the
stranger; "but let me advise you, young man, not to allow that
mysterious and malignant power which you seem to possess to gratify
itself by injury to your fellow-creatures.
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