The doctor he came, and Mrs. Sam
Abbot, but when she got there it was too late; her mother was dead.
Aunt Abby's daughter just give one look at her mother layin' there,
then she turned sort of sharp and sudden and looked at me.
"'Where is she?' says she, and I knew she meant Luella.
"'She's out in the kitchen,' says I. 'She's too nervous to see
folks die. She's afraid it will make her sick.'
"The Doctor he speaks up then. He was a young man. Old Doctor
Park had died the year before, and this was a young fellow just out
of college. 'Mrs. Miller is not strong,' says he, kind of severe,
'and she is quite right in not agitating herself.'
"'You are another, young man; she's got her pretty claw on you,'
thinks I, but I didn't say anythin' to him. I just said over to
Mrs. Sam Abbot that Luella was in the kitchen, and Mrs. Sam Abbot
she went out there, and I went, too, and I never heard anythin'
like the way she talked to Luella Miller. I felt pretty hard to
Luella myself, but this was more than I ever would have dared to
say. Luella she was too scared to go into hysterics. She jest
flopped. She seemed to jest shrink away to nothin' in that kitchen
chair, with Mrs.
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