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Hilda Wade

CHAPTER V
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We must get rid of her, Cumberledge; we must get rid of her.

She is a dangerous woman!" "She is the most intelligent nurse we have ever had in the place, sir," I objected, stoutly.
He nodded his head twice.

"Intelligent--je vous l'accorde; but dangerous--dangerous!" Then he turned to his papers, sorting them out one by one with a preoccupied face and twitching fingers.

I recognised that he desired to be left alone, so I quitted the laboratory.
I cannot quite say WHY, but ever since Hilda Wade first came to Nathaniel's my enthusiasm for Sebastian had been cooling continuously.
Admiring his greatness still, I had doubts as to his goodness.

That day I felt I positively mistrusted him.


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