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The sound of the door-bell, and of some one being shown into the drawing-room.
"The doctor has come, Aunt Anne," Mrs. North said. "I will invigorate myself with a talk before I bring him to you, and tell him that you are much better. " But instead of the doctor she found a little, dried-up-looking old gentleman standing in the middle of the room, holding his hat and umbrella in one hand. She looked at him inquiringly.