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THE days passed, and Marie returned from her daily visits to the / hospital, bringing no better reports.
"But for that long night of exposure to the cold, damp air, baby Victor / would never have been so ill," she had said reproachfully to Tad; "and / now, through you and your headstrong folly, this precious little life / will most likely be lost. You do not deserve to have a brother."