Monday 3 March 2008

A visitor



A visitor comes into the knot garden and sneaks up upon the Duchess. His presence is announced by a particular aroma and a rather unpleasant one at that.

He is none other than the newly arrived contender to the position of Ducal Surgeon from France . Although he only been in the Duchy a few days he has already caused alarm . There are few people Liv takes a dislike to but he has become one very quickly. The Duchess makes an excuse and exits speedily for her parlour.

3 comments:

  1. Does he smells frogs pound, or eucalyptus? Garlic, maybe?

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  2. I suspect that I'd avoid him too.


    -- Jeff

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  3. That might be Dr. Empiricus, or perhaps Dr. pseudo-Paracelsus. Either way, Liv should try to keep an open mind about him, though he could be a quack. That strange odour could be from the residual substances left by a relentless search for the "archenum", an obsession not uncommon for unemployed doctors of his sort.

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