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The American

CHAPTER XIX
19/59

"I feel too badly.

And how are you getting on ?" "Oh, I'm getting off! They have quite settled that; haven't they ?" "That's for you to settle; you can get well if you try," said Newman, with resolute cheerfulness.
"My dear fellow, how can I try?
Trying is violent exercise, and that sort of thing isn't in order for a man with a hole in his side as big as your hat, that begins to bleed if he moves a hair's-breadth.

I knew you would come," he continued; "I knew I should wake up and find you here; so I'm not surprised.

But last night I was very impatient.

I didn't see how I could keep still until you came.


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