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It was perhaps one of the few really unselfish things which she had ever done in the course of a pious but fundamentally selfish life, and it gave her pleasure and courage. The knowledge that some one was weaker than herself and needed her was new strength to her new-born heroism. "It is so frightfully hot," she said half apologetically. "Why isn't the punkah-man at work?"
"The 'punkah-man' has bolted with the rest of them," Mrs. Carmichael answered. "I dare say I could work it, though I have never tried." "It is hardly worth while to begin now," Beatrice observed, and this simple acknowledgment that the end was at hand received no contradiction. Once again the silence was unbroken, save for the soft swish of the fan and Mrs. Cary's heavy, irregular breathing.
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