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Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross

CHAPTER XV
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More than that, with no serious set-back he may fully recover and live for many years to come." He was so pleased that tears stood in his one good eye and he wiped them away sheepishly.

The girl took his hand and pressed it in both her own.
"You are wonderful--wonderful!" she said.
"Don't, please--don't look in my face," he pleaded.
"I won't," she returned, dropping her eyes; "I will think only of the clever brain, the skillful hand and the stout heart." "Not even that," he said.

"Think of the girl wife--of Elizabeth.

It was she who steadied my hand to-day.

Indeed, Miss Stanton, it was Elizabeth's influence that saved him.


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