[John Halifax Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik]@TWC D-Link bookJohn Halifax Gentleman CHAPTER XIV 18/19
Soon after, he rose up to take leave. "Do not go yet; I want to ask about Norton Bury.
I had no idea you lived there.
And Mr.Fletcher too ?" I replied in the affirmative. "In what part of the town ?" "On the Coltham Road, near the Abbey." "Ah, those Abbey chimes!--how I used to listen to them, night after night, when the pain kept me awake!" "What pain ?" asked John, suddenly, alive to any suffering of hers. Miss March smiled almost like her old smile.
"Oh! I had nearly forgotten it, though it was very bad at the time; only that I cut my wrist rather dangerously with a bread knife, in a struggle with my nurse." "When was that ?" eagerly inquired John. For me, I said nothing.
Already I guessed all.
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