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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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care as long as his wife was happy, she had never
been in a better mood than now. The colonel
was right, the whole expression of her face had
changed, an infinite tenderness shone in her dark
eyes.

The boy slept badly, often when I went to
have a look at him before going to bed I thought
his face looked flushed, Rosalie said he coughed
a good deal in the night. One morning I heard
the ominous crepitation in the top of his right
lung. I knew only too well what it meant. I
had to tell his new friend, she said she already
knew, she had probably known it before I did.
I wanted to get a nurse to help Rosalie, but she
would not hear of it. She implored me to take
her as his nurse and I gave way. There was
indeed nothing else to do, the boy seemed to fret
even in his sleep as soon as she left the room.
Rosalie went to sleep with the cook in the attics,
the daughter of the duke slept on the bed of the
charwoman in John’s room. A couple of days
later he had a slight hæmorrhage, the temperature
rose in the evening, it became evident that the
course of the disease was going to be rapid.

“He won’t live long,” said Rosalie putting her
handkerchief to her eyes, “he has already got the
face of an angel.”

He liked to sit up for a while on the lap of his
tender nurse while Rosalie was making up his
bed for the night. I had always thought John
an intelligent and sweet-looking child but I
would never have called him a beautiful child.
As I looked at him now the very features of his
face seemed changed, his eyes seemed much

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