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early morning. "Then I congratulate you upon your powers of early rising." Rosamund colored. Lucy's eyes were fixed on her face. "My dear Miss Lucy," said the doctor, "your friend, Miss"---- "My name is Rosamund Cunliffe," said Rosamund. "Your friend Miss Cunliffe has put all the rest of you young ladies to shame. She was walking abroad this morning between four and five o'clock at some distance from here." Lucy's eyes flashed fire. Rosamund found herself turning pale. The Professor looked at her. Suddenly Rosamund went up to the Professor and took his hand. "I want to speak to you, and alone," she said. "In a moment, my dear," he answered. He then turned to the doctor. "Mrs. Brett, my kind sister-in-law, has promised to take all my young people to her house in Dartford," he said. "She proposes that they should return with her immediately. Then the house will be quite quiet for the invalid, and there will be no danger of the disease spreading." "If it does spread I shall be on the spot to grapple with it," said Dr. Marshall.--"What an excellent plan, Mrs. Brett, and how exactly like you!--Now then, young ladies, the sooner you pack up the better. You needn't take a great many things; they can be sent to you afterwards. The great thing is to get away. It may be in the air; it may be--we cannot tell what; but the sooner all of you young people are out of Sunnyside the safer it will be." "It would not be fair," said the Professor, "to ask the Singletons to take any of them in. We did think of that at first. We know how particularly kind Mr. Singleton is. But there are his own children to be thought of; and as he is the rector of the parish he has also to consider his parishioners." "I am the woman who has to act in this emergency," said Mrs. Brett; "and now the sooner we drop the subject of whys and wherefores the better.--Run upstairs, my dears, and get ready.--I will not even see my dear sister, Mrs. Merriman, for fear of infection; but you will know where to find me if you want my help." "I don't think we shall need it," said the doctor. "Two excellent nurses are coming by the next train, and I shall leave full directions, and my assistant will come out to see the patient this evening.--Now, if you will kindly allow me to pass, young ladies, I will go and see the invalid, and I will not see any of you again afterwards. It is safer not." There was a look on his face which startled and b
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