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"Clare here's gone and got herself real miserable," he stated, rising and beckoning Gordon to follow him to the porch. "She's bad," he pronounced outside; "that pain's got the best of her, and it's getting the best of me. She ought to be cut, but she's so weak, it's gone so long, that I'm kind of slow about opening her.
"The boys told me you were crippled by your pains." "I was. The pain's gone." "Rest's a good cure," said Wilkinson. "You got laid off on Saturday, didn't you?" The curiosity that had made Charnock stop was satisfied.
Pain's appearance is then the sign for its instant disappearance; not indeed by virtue of its inner nature or of any art it can initiate, but merely by virtue of mechanical associations between its cause and its remedy. The burned child dreads the fire and, reading only the surface of his life, fancies that the pain once felt and still remembered is the ground of his new prudence.
Don't give way when you've been so brave." But for the moment Sophie's bravery had deserted her. "It's raining! It's raining! It always rains. I can't face it. The pain's all over me, and the omnibuses won't stop! They expect you to jump in, and I can't jump! I don't know how to get home." "Well, I do!" Claire cried briskly. "There's no difficulty about that. I'm sick of wet walks myself.
You don't need to be. Remember what you've just said: it's the waiting that's so wearing; the real pain's over in a second. Get the real pain over; then we'll plan for the best." She looked up gratefully with eyes that were almost clear of trouble. "You're gentle so different from other men. I could almost love you; I do love you. But not quite in the way You understand.
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