First Sentence

"DOCTOR THORPE was taking a hasty dinner before his evening office hour, which of late had actually begun to be rather filled with patients, although the young physician was having a long, hard struggle among the rural Pennsylvania Dutch to overcome their prejudice against the modern method of dispensing with drugs in favor of sanitary living; not to mention the much deeper prejudice against a doctor who was "a city stranger" and who "did not mind to his own business," but went about trying to stir up the whole sleepy township with his howl for good roads and no graft."