y once crossed, and that was towards the end, when my poor
            father was far gone in a decline that took him off. Dr. Livesey came
            late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my
            mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should
            come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow. I
            followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright
            doctor, with his powder as w