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Up the Hill and Over

CHAPTER X
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Perhaps it is not as difficult to fill as you think.

Let me show the prescription to Dr.Callandar--" She stopped suddenly for Mrs.
Coombe had grown white, a pasty white, and she broke in upon the girl's suggestion with a little inarticulate cry of rage, so uncalled for, so utterly unexpected, that Esther was frightened.

For a moment the film seemed brushed from the hazel eyes--the blinds were raised and angry fear peeped out.
"You wouldn't dare!" The words were a mere breath.

Then meeting the girl's look of blank amazement she caught herself from the brink of hysteria and added more calmly, "What an impossible suggestion! I need no second opinion upon the remedy which your father prescribed for me and I shall take none.

As for the journey, I shall ask your advice when I wish it.


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