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The Angel and the Author - and Others

CHAPTER XIII
15/17

He was at that specialist's door at half-past nine o'clock.

At half-past eleven he came back, also in a four-wheeled cab, and day and night nurses for both of them were wired for.

He also, it appeared, had arrived at that specialist's door only just in time.
"There's this appendy--whatever they call it," commented Mrs.Wilkins, "why a dozen years ago one poor creature out of ten thousand may possibly 'ave 'ad something wrong with 'is innards.

To-day you ain't 'ardly considered respectable unless you've got it, or 'ave 'ad it.

I 'ave no patience with their talk.


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