It is not so bad as that.'
'You had heard it before?'
'How is he, Mary?'
'Oh, heavens! I cannot read it. Do you read it. Tell me all. Tell
me the truth. What am I to do? Where shall I go?' Then she threw
up her hands, and with a loud scream fell on her knees with her
head upon the chair. In the next moment Mrs Finn was down beside
her on the floor. 'Read it; why do you not read it? If you will
not read it, give it to me.'
Mrs Finn did read the letter, which was very short, but still
giving by no means an unfavourable account of the patient. 'I am
sorry to say he has broken ever so many bones, and we were very
much frightened about him.' Then the writer went into details,
from which the reader who did not read the whole words carefully
might well imagine that the man's life was still in danger.
Mrs Finn did read it all, and did her best to comfort her friend.
'It has been a bad accident,' she said, 'but it is clear that he
id getting better. Men do so often break their bones, and then
seem to think nothing of it afterwards.
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