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The doctor arrested her hand when she would have covered the face

"Hefellow in his day!" he said, more

to himself than to her "But he has lived fast, burned himself up

alive with liquor"

"I didn't call nobody, sir, to help ood, and I was afeared of wakin' the gentlemen and ladies, a

trottin' up and downstairs," continued Phillis, bent upon

exculpating herself fro his

ht, old lady! All the doctors and h after the drink and the

snow had had their ith hio back to bed now, and finish ht himself of a final

injunction

"You had better keep an eye upon these things, Aunty!" pointing to

the coat and other gared upon chairs to dry in

front of the fire "There will be a coroner's inquest, I suppose,

and there may be papers in his pockets which will tell who he was

and where he belonged When you are through in here, lock the door

and take out the key--and if you can help it, don't let a whisper of

this get abroad before breakfast It will spoil the ladies'

appetites If anybody asks how he is, say 'a little better' He

can't be worse off than he was in life, let him be where he may"