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The Railway Children

CHAPTER XIII
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"Well--perhaps he could, but you know, dear, we're not rich.

I can't afford to get him everything he'll want.

And he must have a nurse." "Can't you nurse him, Mother?
You do nurse people so beautifully." "That's a pretty compliment, Pete--but I can't do nursing and my writing as well.

That's the worst of it." "Then you MUST send the letter to his grandfather ?" "Of course--and to his schoolmaster, too.

We telegraphed to them both, but I must write as well.


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