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The family, in its emphatic substantiality, was most friendly and eager to please. They urged food and fluid upon him in a way that would have dismayed his Yankee doctor. He found himself eating and drinking to an extent he had never imagined. This sort of thing, he concluded half-despairingly, would either be the making of him or kill him. At home the general fear was about too much.
He looked round him in the broadening day as if he were in search of something, or some one, hopefully yet half-despairingly expected. "Look here if you'd sooner I went..." I began. He had risen to his feet after his last statement and was looking back towards the Hall, but he faced me again when I spoke. "Oh, no!" he said with a hint of weariness.
Sometimes his mother, who was a slight small woman, stronger of mind than of body, would feel downright discouraged about her vigorous, wilful boy, and wonder, half-despairingly, if she were really equal to the task of bringing him up in the way he should go. Cuthbert was in many respects an odd mixture.
The little girl's name was Susie Smith. Perhaps I could get to know them. Do you suppose I could? And there was a boy, and another lady with a baby only they lived in Honolulu, so probably I couldn't find them there now. But there'd be Mrs. Carew, anyway. Who is Mrs. Carew, Aunt Polly? Is she a relation?" "Dear me, Pollyanna!" exclaimed Mrs. Chilton, half-laughingly, half-despairingly.
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