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The Second Generation

CHAPTER XIX
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"Who understands a woman but a woman?
Who understands a child but a woman?
And what's a man when he's sick but a child ?" She was impatient for the marriage.

And when Madelene asked if she'd object to having a small doctor's sign somewhere on the front fence, she looked astounded at the question.

"We must do better than that," she said.

"I'll have you an office--just two or three rooms--built down by the street so as to save people coming clear up here.

That'd lose you many a customer." "Yes, it might lose us a good many," said Madelene, and you'd never have thought the "us" deliberate.
That capped the climax.


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