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WITHOUT another word on the painful subject, Mr. Woodward began to talk about some news he had read in his paper. By selecting the choicest tit-bits, he coaxed his wife's failing appetite, to eat enough to sustain her strength through the anxieties of the afternoon.
"Let me manage him," she pleaded as they arose from the table. "I shall not feel that I have discharged my duty to the poor child unless I talk with him."