text:  "This is an awful thing Mr Cutts!" said Mrs Hickson the comely mistress of the house; "is there nothing that would do the poor gentleman any good?" "I think he'd be a great deal the better of a little brandy and water " said Cutts--"the doctor hinted as much just now; and my dear madam you had better make two glasses of it rather stiff and send them up-stairs by the Boots