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[page 79] office where I was. I thought there was upon his face an unusually quiet, smooth, pacific expression. I waited calmly, and talked a little about matters. It was the most pleasant face I had seen on him for quite a while, said the occasion I had with Dr. Harlow in the other affair. Said he, "You did right about that meat the other day. If I had a brother there and you hadn't done that I should have felt you hadn't been doing your duty." Said I, "I thought so too. That is the reason I did it." But I didn't tell him it was extremely unpleasant to do it. Another time at dinner when meat came on it was warm. Of course hot meat exhales a fragrance, and it was a fragrance perceptible before you got to the dining room in the hall. And the patients complained of it, and the attendants would not put it on the table. I could not blame them, and I took some of it and brought it out to Dr. Harlow again. Mr. Richards was there, and I says, "I am very glad you are here." He says, "I am sorry. Dont say any thing about it to me at all." I says you will have to be here." Miss Twitchell was there then. The meat was then cold. She picked over a piece here and there and sniffed a