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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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“Your father was a strange man, sombre and
silent. He was kind to all the poor and to all
animals, but he seemed often hard to those
around him. He used to flog you a lot but it is
true you were a difficult child. You obeyed
nobody, you did not seem to care for either your
father or your mother or your sister or your
brother or for anybody. Yes, I think you cared
for your nurse, don’t you remember her, Lena?
Nobody else liked her, everybody was afraid of
her. She had been taken on as your nurse for
sheer necessity as your mother could not give you
the breast. Nobody knew where she came from.
Her skin was dark like the skin of the Lapp
child who brought you here yesterday, but she
was very tall. She used to sing to you in an
unknown tongue while she gave you the breast,
she kept on giving you the breast till you were two
years old. Nobody, not even your mother, dared
to go near her, she growled like an angry she-wolf
if anybody wanted to take you from her arms.
At last she was sent away but she returned in the
night and tried to steal you. Your mother got
so frightened that she had to take her back.
She brought you all sorts of animals to play with,
bats, hedge-hogs, squirrels, rats, snakes, owls
and ravens. I once saw her with my own eyes
cutting the throat of a raven and putting some
drops of his blood in your milk. One day when
you were four years old the sheriff came with two
country policemen and carried her away,
handcuffed. I heard it had something to do with her
own child. The whole house was delighted, but
you were delirious for several days. Most of

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