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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XIX
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'If the remedy is tried,' she said, 'I must ask you to give it a fair chance by permitting me to act as nurse; the treatment of the patient when he begins to feel the benefit of the medicine is of serious importance.

I know this from my husband's instructions, and it is due to his memory (to say nothing of what is due to Mr.Keller) that I should be at the bedside.' It is needless to say that I joyfully accepted the offered help.

So the night passed.

The next morning, soon after you fell asleep, the doctors came.

You may imagine what they thought of poor Keller, when I tell you that they recommended me to write instantly to Fritz in London summoning him to his father's bedside.


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