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She said to herself, "He knows everything about me and he thinks I'm awful." It was anguish to Ally that he should think her awful. Mary knew perfectly well that he was thinking how awful she was. It was what Mary thought herself. If only Gwenda had stayed with her! But Gwenda had left the room when she saw Rowcliffe take out his stethescope.
The tubes of Rowcliffe's queer, new-fangled stethescope, appearing out of his coat pocket, sent them into ecstacies of mirth. They always made the same little joke about it; they called the stethescope his telephone. But of course he didn't want to marry them. There was the very old lady on the east side, who had had one stroke and was expecting another every day.
Boyle acquired a special nimbleness in jumping in and out of these contrivances armed with stethescope, spoons, bowls, and dressings. We accumulated a congregation of "regulars," who came to be dressed every day gathered feet, suppurating glands, eczema, etc. One old mother with a bad leg was bandaged up with boracic ointment and told to come back in two days. She came. Jo undid the bandage.
That might have been his north-country manners and probably he couldn't help them. But there was no necessity that Ally could see for his brutal abruptness, and the callous and repellent look he had when she bared her breast to the stethescope that sent all her poor secrets flying through the long tubes that attached her heart to his abominable ears.
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