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He asked for various needments, and while he was inspecting them,
Allen's courage began to fail, and he breathed out whispers that the
man was rougher and more ignorant than he expected, and they had
better wait and send to Kenminster for a doctor; but those who
thought Caroline helpless and childish would have been amazed at the
gentle resolution with which she refused to listen to his falterings,
and braced him to endure, knowing well that her husband had said that
skill was hardly needed in such a case, only resolution. She would
not let herself be taken out of the room, and indeed never thought of
herself, only of Allen, whose other hand she held, and to whom she
seemed to give patience and courage. When all was well over, there
was a hospitable invitation to the patient to remain till he was fit
to return, and an extension of the invitation to his mother, but with
promises of every care if she must leave him, and this she was forced
to decide on doing, as such a household as hers could not well spare
her, especially on a Saturday evening; and she also saw that the
inconvenience to her hosts would have been great.
Allen was so much relieved, that she had no fear of leaving him to
these kind people, to whom she had taken a great fancy.
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