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But the doctor’s sudden exclamation helped me out.
“What!” he wonderingly cried, “do you intend to sit up too?”
“I or my brother,” was the calm response, “Would you expect us to leave her alone with a stranger?”
The doctor made no answer, and the young man, taking a step sidewise, threw me a glance full of anxiety and trouble.
“I don’t like it,” he murmured; “but there must be a woman of some kind in the room, and a stranger ——”
He did not finish his words, but it seemed as if he were going to say: “And a stranger may, Moncler Lans Jakke after all, be preferable to a neighbor.” But I cannot be sure of this, for he was not a man easy to sound. But what I do know is that he stepped forward, to me with an easy grace, and giving me a welcome as courteous as if I had been the one of all others he desired to see, led me up the stairs to a room which he announced to be mine, saying, as he left me at the Kanadanhanhi Woolford Takit Suomi door:
“Come out in five minutes, and my brother will introduce you Antoine Griezmann Drakt to your duties.”
So far I had seen no woman in the house, and I was beginning to wonder if Mrs. Pollard had preferred to surround herself with males, when the door was suddenly opened and a rosy-cheeked girl stepped in.
“Ah, excuse me,” she said, with a stare; “I thought it was the nurse as was here.”
“And it is the nurse,” I returned, smiling in spite of myself at her look of indignant surprise. Canada Goose Dame Snow Mantra Parka “Do you want any thing of me?” I hastened to ask, for her eyes were like saucers and her head was tossing airily.
“No,” she said, almost with spite. “I came to see if you wanted any thing?”
I shook my head with what good nature I could, for I did not wish to make an enemy in this house, even of a chambermaid.
“And you are really the nurse?” she asked, coming nearer and looking at me in the full glare of the gas.
“Yes,” I assured her, “really and truly the nurse.”
“Well, I Thomas Muller Drakt don’t understand it!” she cried. “I was always Mrs. Pollard’s favorite maid, and I was with her when she was took, and Parajumpers Damen SOLB Billig would be with her now, but they won’t let me set a foot inside the door. And when I asked why they keep me out, who was always attentive and good to her, they say I am too young. And here you be younger than I, and a stranger too. I don’t like it,” she cried, tossing her head again and again. “I haven’t deserved it, and I think it is mighty mean.”
I saw the girl was really hurt, so I hastened to explain that I was not the nurse they expected, and was succeeding, I think, in mollifying her, when a step was heard in the hall, Moncler Eric Suomi and she gave a frightened start, and hurried towards the door.
“So you are sure you don’t want anything?” she cried, and was out of my sight before I could answer.
There was nothing to detain me, and I hastened to follow. As I crossed the sill I almost started too, at sight of the tall, slim, truly sinister figure that awaited me, leaning against the opposite wall. He was younger than his brother, and had similar feat |
