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"But I presume he was expectin' to get well right away, then. And I don't believe," he added, energetically, "but what he will, yet. As I undastand, there ain't anything ogganic about him. It's just this he'e nuvvous prostration, resultin' from shock, his docta tells me; and he'll wo'k out of that all right." They said no more, and Mrs.
Landa would expect I should do; though why he didn't do it himself, I can't undastand, unless it was to show his confidence in me." She began to ask Clementina how she felt about staying in Venice all summer; she said she had got so much better there already that she believed she should be well by fall if she stayed on.
But you can undastand, can't you, how I shall want to have somebody around that can undastand a little English?" The doctor said, "Oh yes. And Miss Claxon and I can understand a good deal, between us, and we're going to stay, and see how a little morphine behaves with you." Mrs. Lander protested, "Oh, I can't bea' mo'phine, docta."
"Why, I don't know what it can be," answered the girl, with trembling lips. "I've been trying to find out, and I can't undastand it." "Ah, those things are often very obscure," said Milray, with a patient smile. Clementina wanted to ask him if Mrs. Milray had said anything to him about her, but she could not, and he did not speak again till he heard her stir in rising from her chair.
But you undastand that is not a woman for me to mispwonownce my 'ah's befaw NOR FOR YOU TO MAKE A BOSOM FWIEND OF WOSA STAINES." She said this with a sudden maternal solemnity and kindness that contrasted nobly and strangely with her yea-nay style, and Mrs. Staines remembered the words years after they were spoken. It so happened that after this Mrs.
Can you do something to make her value superfluity and luxury at their true worth?" Mrs. Lander looked a little alarmed and a little offended. "I don't know as I undastand what you mean, exactly," she said, frowning rather with perplexity than resentment. "But the child sha'n't have a care, and her own motha couldn't be betta to her than me.
She put the letter in his hands to let it explain itself. "You'll undastand, now," she said. "What shall I do?" When he had read it, he smiled and answered, "I guess I understood pretty well before, though I wasn't posted on names. Well, I suppose you'll want to layout most of your capital on cables, now?" "Yes," she laughed, and then she suddenly lamented, "Why didn't they telegraph?"
"At any rate," he began, "I can thank you for rating my motive above my conduct." "Oh," she said. "I don't think either of us acted very well. I didn't know till aftawa'ds that I was glad to have you give up, the way you did in Florence. I was bewild'ed. But I ought to have known, and I want you to undastand everything, now.
I don't know but you betta; we might as well; I want to talk with you. Don't you think it's something we ought to talk about-sensibly?" "Why, of course! And I shall try to be guided by you; I should always submit to be ruled by you, if " "That's not what I mean, exactly. I don't want to do the ruling. You don't undastand me." "I'm afraid I don't," he assented, humbly.
You will have to think of sharing such a life if you think " He stopped; the time had come for her to speak, and she said, "I knew you wanted to be a missionary " "And and you would go with me? You would" He started toward her, and she did not shrink from him, now; but he checked himself. "But you mustn't, you know, for my sake." "I don't believe I quite undastand," she faltered.
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