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Excerpt from Halves, Vol. 3 of 3: And Other Tales
I am the nurse, madam, said a cheery, quiet voice, sent by Dr. Wilde.
I expected an outburst, but Mrs. Rae burn said nothing. She simply withdrew into an angle of the wall close beside me, as though to shield her ?ickering candle from the wind, while the man brought in the luggage. The contrast between the looks of these two women was most striking. Nurse Hopkins, wholesome and apple-cheeked, seemed wholly occupied with checking off her little articles of property: box, bag, bundle, and umbrella; a pair of clogs, only one of which seemed to have arrived, gave her great disquietude. Mrs.
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