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But the doctor’s sudden exclamation helped me out.
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“I don’t like it,” he murmured; “but there must be a woman of some kind in the room, and a stranger ——”
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I shook my head with what good nature I could, for I did not wish to make an enemy in this house, even of a chambermaid.
“And you are really the nurse?” she asked, coming nearer and looking at me in the full glare of the gas.
“Yes,” I assured her, “really and truly the nurse.”
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“So you are sure you don’t want anything?” she cried, and was out of my sight before I could answer.
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