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Pembroke

CHAPTER XIV
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There's a widow woman over there that goes out nussin', Silas said, an' they hope they can get her.

The doctor says he's got to have somebody." "Rebecca can't do anything, of course," said Sarah, meditatively; "he 'ain't got any of his own folks to come, poor feller." Charlotte crossed the kitchen floor with a resolute air.
"What are you goin' to do, Charlotte ?" her mother asked in a trembling voice.
Charlotte turned around and faced her father and mother.

"I shouldn't think you'd ask me," said she.
"You ain't--goin'-- over-- ?" "Of course I am going over there.

Do you suppose I am going to let him lie there and suffer all alone, with nobody to take care of him ?" "There's--the woman--comin'." "She can't come.

I know who the woman is.


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