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"I didn't say anythin', but I considered how she had been Erastus's
wife and how he had set his eyes by her, and I made up my mind to
go in the next mornin', unless she was better, and see what I could
do; but the next mornin' I see her at the window, and pretty soon
she came steppin' out as spry as you please, and a little while
afterward Mrs. Babbit came in and told me that the Doctor had got a
girl from out of town, a Sarah Jones, to come there, and she said
she was pretty sure that the Doctor was goin' to marry Luella.
"I saw him kiss her in the door that night myself, and I knew it
was true. The woman came that afternoon, and the way she flew
around was a caution. I don't believe Luella had swept since Maria
died. She swept and dusted, and washed and ironed; wet clothes and
dusters and carpets were flyin' over there all day, and every time
Luella set her foot out when the Doctor wa'n't there there was that
Sarah Jones helpin' of her up and down the steps, as if she hadn't
learned to walk.
"Well, everybody knew that Luella and the Doctor were goin' to be
married, but it wa'n't long before they began to talk about his
lookin' so poorly, jest as they had about the others; and they
talked about Sarah Jones, too.
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