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The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

CHAPTER XXV
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She, carelessly, or misunderstanding the directions, gave two of the morphine powders.

The dose was not large enough to cause more serious injury than throwing the patient into a long and heavy sleep, and frightening his family.

The doctor, who had engaged the nurse, discharged her, as Mr.B.was so far improved as to need only such care as his wife and daughter could give him.
My curiosity prompted me to inquire of Mrs.B.and Miss B., without divulging my motive, the particulars of the call they had received from the horse-car orator.

I learned that Mrs.B.had told the girl's mother the facts of the case while the two daughters were talking together.

Miss B.said that they, now and then, overheard a few words of the conversation between the older women, and that her companion had made several inquiries concerning it.


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