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HOW CLARE WAITED. 105<br />

She had a great idea <strong>of</strong> keeping on the<br />

right side <strong>of</strong> the law, <strong>of</strong> sinning after the<br />

manner <strong>of</strong> respectable people. T<strong>her</strong>efore,<br />

she was strictly honest, sober, and discreet,<br />

and as to <strong>her</strong> nursing, it was just a piece<br />

<strong>of</strong> work, and Clare could no more slight it<br />

than she could anything else she undertook<br />

to do. It would be very hard upon <strong>her</strong> if<br />

Mr. Thornton did get well, but she could<br />

no more neglect anything required by the<br />

doctors directions, than she could have<br />

put great stitches in <strong>her</strong> delicate needle-<br />

work, or have scorched the fine things that<br />

had been given <strong>her</strong> to iron.<br />

Her spirits rallied wonderfully, and she<br />

began to think that, after all, matters were<br />

to come home to Mr. Dale, when Mr. Harben<br />

one day, after expressing his hearty appro-<br />

val <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> care and attention as a nurse, said,<br />

that though he believed his patient would<br />

pull through, he had serious doubts whet<strong>her</strong><br />

his mind would not be permanently affected.

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