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The White Sister

CHAPTER X
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The middle-aged woman of the world felt that her reputation was a coat of many colours, and her past, when she looked back to it, was like a badly-constructed play in which the stage is crowded with personages who have little connection with each other.

There was much which she herself did not care to remember, but much more that no one else need ever know; and as she had never before been delirious, nor even ill, the thought that she had now perhaps revealed incidents of her past life was anything but pleasant.
'It is so very disagreeable to think that I may have talked nonsense,' she said to the doctor, examining one of her white hands thoughtfully.
'Do not disturb yourself about that,' he answered in a reassuring tone, for he understood much better than she guessed.

'A good trained nurse is as silent about such accidental confessions as a good priest is about intentional ones.' 'Confession!' cried the Princess, annoyed.

'As if I were concealing a crime! I only mean that I probably said very silly things.

By the bye, I had several nurses, had I not?
You kept changing them.


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