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The Morgesons

CHAPTER XXI
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How pale he was! But he did not speak again.

The horse ran a few rods, leaped across a ditch, clambered up a stone wall with his fore-feet, and fell backward! Dr.White was in my room, washing my face.

There was a smell of camphor about the bed.

"You crawled out of a small hole, my child," he said, as I opened my eyes.

It was quite dark, but I saw people at the door, and two or three at the foot of my bed, and I heard low, constrained talking everywhere.
"His iron feet made a dreadful noise on the stones, Doctor!" I shut my eyes again and dozed.


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