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McTeague

CHAPTER 18
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She heard the doctor's swinging tramp in the entry below, and heard the German woman saying: "Righd oop der stairs, at der back of der halle.

Der room mit der door oppen." Miss Baker met the doctor at the landing, she told him in a whisper of the trouble.
"Her husband's deserted her, I'm afraid, doctor, and took all of her money--a good deal of it.

It's about killed the poor child.

She was out of her head a good deal of the night, and now she's got a raging fever." The doctor and Miss Baker returned to the room and entered, closing the door.

The big doctor stood for a moment looking down at Trina rolling her head from side to side upon the pillow, her face scarlet, her enormous mane of hair spread out on either side of her.


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