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MY first proposal was to remove the patient, with all due care and gentleness, to a better lodging, and a district more convenient for the visits of the most eminent physicians. When I expressed this wish to Isora, she looked at me long and wistfully, and then burst into tears. "/You/ will not deceive us," said she, "and I accept your kindness at once, -- from /him/ I rejected the same offer."
"Him? -- of whom speak you? -- this Barnard, or rather -- but I know him! " A startling expression passed over Isora's speaking face.