Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 135: what you’re looking at

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126 MARRIAGE AND DEATH. wealthy, she declared, smiling, but still was not destitute, and her tastes were simple. Being alone in the world, what she required above all, she repeated, was a home in return for her services. She professed to have a smattering of medical knowledge and had been told that she was a com- petent nurse. She would do her best to please, and if, after they had reached the other side, she was unsatisfactory, she could return by the next steamer. It was simple enough. She had cared for invalids before, and as for her nerves, why, she believed they were of iron. GOmIichboo S (E(0) im