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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 1: A Faithful Nurse
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Why should you not go to him ?" "I will gladly do so, if you will tell me where he lives." "He has a small farm.

You must have passed it, as you came along.
It is about a mile from here." "I will go to him at once," Soyera said.
"No, no," the woman exclaimed; "that will never do.

You must stop a day or two here.

Sufder would be angry, indeed, were he to find that you did not remain here; and would blame me for it.

I should be willing enough for you to stay a week, or a month; that is a different thing from becoming an inmate of the house." "I will wait till tomorrow, for I have made a long two days' journey from the top of the Ghauts and, as I am not accustomed to walking, my feet are sore.


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