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last remark which--"
However, she was gone with a flourish before I could finish, and had
taken the child with her. That night at dinner she confronted me with a
face as white as a sheet:
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Oh, Mortimer, there's another! Little Georgi Gordon is taken."
Membranous croup?"
Membranous croup."
Is there any hope for him?"
None in the wide world. Oh, what is to become of us!"
By and by a nurse brought in our Penelope to say good night and offer the
customary prayer at the mother's knee. In the midst of "Now I lay me
down to sleep," she gave a slight cough! My wife fell back like one
stricken with death. But the next moment she was up and brimming with
the activities which terror inspires.
She commanded that the child's crib be removed from the nursery to our
bedroom; and she went along to see the order executed. She took me with
her, of course. We got matters arranged with speed. A cot-bed was put
up in my wife's dressing room for the nurse. But now Mrs. McWilliams
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