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into the dim vistas of recollection by the unselfish friendship of this girl of the
streets.
Jimmy's nurse quite fell in love with Edith.
"
She is such a sweet girl," she said, "and always so cheerful. She is going to
make some one a mighty good wife," and she smiled knowingly at Jimmy.
The suggestion which her words implied came to Jimmy as a distinct shock. He
had never thought of Edith Hudson in the light of this suggestion, and now he
wondered if there could be any such sentiment as it implied in Edith's heart, but
finally he put the idea away with a shrug.
"Impossible," he thought. "She thinks of me as I think of her, only as a good
friend."
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