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Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887

CHAPTER 8
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"How heartless you must have thought us! How could we leave you to yourself so long! But it is over now, is it not?
You are better, surely." "Yes," I said, "thanks to you.

If you will not go away quite yet, I shall be myself soon." "Indeed I will not go away," she said, with a little quiver of her face, more expressive of her sympathy than a volume of words.

"You must not think us so heartless as we seemed in leaving you so by yourself.

I scarcely slept last night, for thinking how strange your waking would be this morning; but father said you would sleep till late.

He said that it would be better not to show too much sympathy with you at first, but to try to divert your thoughts and make you feel that you were among friends." "You have indeed made me feel that," I answered.


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