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Harding to allow a radical from the town to get into the concern.

Probably Dr Grantly forgot at the moment, that the



charity was intended for broken-down journeymen of Barchester.

There is living at Barchester, a young man, a surgeon,



named John Bold, and both Mr Harding and Dr Grantly are

well aware that to him is owing the pestilent rebellious feeling



which has shown itself in the hospital; yes, and the renewal,

too, of that disagreeable talk about Hiram's estates which is



now again prevalent in Barchester. Nevertheless, Mr Harding

and Mr Bold are acquainted with each other; we may say,



are friends, considering the great disparity in their years. Dr

Grantly, however, has a holy horror of the impious demagogue,



as on one occasion he called Bold, when speaking of him

to the precentor; and being a more prudent far-seeing man



than Mr Harding, and possessed of a stronger head, he

already perceives that this John Bold will work great trouble in



Barchester. He considers that he is to be regarded as an enemy,

and thinks that he should not be admitted into the camp on



anything like friendly terms. As John Bold will occupy much

of our attention we must endeavour to explain who he is, and



why he takes the part of John Hiram's bedesmen.

John Bold is a young surgeon, who passed many of his boyish



years at Barchester. His father was a physician in the city of

London, where he made a moderate fortune, which he invested



in houses in that city. The Dragon of Wantly inn and posting-

house belonged to him, also four shops in the High Street,



and a moiety of the new row of genteel villas (so called in

the advertisements), built outside the town just beyond



Hiram's Hospital. To one of these Dr Bold retired to spend

the evening of his life, and to die; and here his son John spent



his holidays, and afterwards his Christmas vacation when he

went from school to study surgery in the London hospitals.



Just as John Bold was entitled to write himself surgeon and

apothecary, old Dr Bold died, leaving his Barchester property to



his son, and a certain sum in the three per cents. to his daughter

Mary, who is some four or five years older than her brother.



John Bold determined to settle himself at Barchester, and

look after his own property, as well as the bones and bodies of



such of his neighbours as would call upon him for assistance in

their troubles. He therefore put up a large brass plate with



'John Bold, Surgeon' on it, to the great disgust of the nine

practitioners who were already trying to get a living out of the



bishop, dean, and canons; and began house-keeping with the

aid of his sister. At this time he was not more than twenty-



four years old; and though he has now been three years in

Barchester, we have not heard that he has done much harm



to the nine worthy practitioners. Indeed, their dread of him

has died away; for in three years he has not taken three fees.



Nevertheless, John Bold is a clever man, and would, with

practice, be a clever surgeon; but he has got quite into another



line of life. Having enough to live on, he has not been forced

to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what



he calls the drudgery of the profession" target="_blank" title="n.职业；声明；表白">profession, by which, I believe, he

means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has



found other employment. He frequently binds up the bruises

and sets the limbs of such of the poorer classes as profess his



way of thinking--but this he does for love. Now I will not

say that the archdeacon is strictly correct in stigmatising John



Bold as a demagogue, for I hardly know how extreme must be

a man's opinions before he can be justly so called; but Bold is



a strong reformer" target="_blank" title="n.改革者；革新者">reformer. His passion is the reform of all abuses;

state abuses, church abuses, corporation abuses (he has got



himself elected a town councillor of Barchester, and has so

worried three consecutive mayors, that it became somewhat



difficult to find a fourth), abuses in medical practice, and

general abuses in the world at large. Bold is thoroughly sincere



in his patrioticendeavours to mend mankind, and there

is something to be admired in the energy with which he devotes



himself to remedying evil and stopping injustice; but I fear




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