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The Major

CHAPTER VI
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In all the moods and tenses of the little maid the doctor looked for and found reminiscences of her mother.
Through those eight lonely years the little girl had divided with his profession the doctor's days.

Every morning after breakfast he stood to watch the trim, sturdy, round little figure dance down the steps, step primly down the walk, turn at the gate to throw a kiss, and then march away along the street to the corner where another kiss would greet him before the final vanishing.

Every day they met at noon to exchange on equal terms the experiences of the morning.

Every night they closed the day with dinner and family prayers, the little girl gravely taking her part in the reading during the last year from her mother's Bible.

And so it came that with the years their friendship grew in depth, in frankness and in tenderness.


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