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The term was also used colloquially to refer to apothecaries themselves and even physicians -LRB- Trollope so uses the term in later chapters -RRB- . -RSB- Up to this , Barry had hardly listened to what the doctor had been saying ; but now he was all attention . `` So that is to be his price , '' thought he to himself , `` he 'll cost me dear , but I suppose he must have it . '' Barry looked at his watch : it was near eight o'clock , but he seemed to feel that all he had drank had had no effect on him : it had not given him the usual pluck ; it had not given him the feeling of reckless assurance , which he mistook for courage and capacity . `` If you 've a mind to be a tenant of mine , Colligan , I 'll keep a look out for you . The land 's crowded now , but there 's a lot of them cottier -LSB- 42 -RSB- devils I mean to send to the right about . They do the estate no good , and I hate the sight of them .