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THE OLD woman’s head was barely fretting against the pillow. She could have moaned slightly.
7 c$ N1 y1 x& P, Q% y‘What is it?’ asked the nurse, advancing on her out of the shadow. ‘Aren’t you comfortable, Mrs Hunter?’/ ^; n, i/ F8 z& a
‘Not at all. I’m lying on corks. They’re hurting me.’3 L4 `( }4 ]3 a6 r/ n
The nurse smoothed the kidney-blanket, the macintosh, and stretched the sheet. She worked with an air which was not quite professional detachment, nor yet human tenderness; she was probably something of a ritualist.
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