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"There's no good in telling him now, for if I did they'd take him away and put him in a cabin, where it would only be lonezome for him and for me too; and no one would wait on him better than I do But Nic did not get better, as Pete wished, nor yet as the doctor essayed to make him It has got on his brain, poor fellow," said that gentleman one day, when the patient was able to walk about, apparently nearly well, but his mind quite vacant.— Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
He made frequent visits, ran up as large a bill as he thought would be duly paid, and in three or four weeks the patient was at his employment.— Six Years in the Prisons of England
In the second the patient was a man over fifty, who had received other injuries.— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
Her eyes closed, her tense little hand dropped wearily, but she held Sissy fast When she thought her patient was asleep, Miss Madigan tried to open her fingers, but, with something of her old waywardness, Irene resisted.— The Madigans
In a few days their patient was able to sit up without difficulty, and, after a while, to leave the hut for the shepherd's comfortable cottage, to which he was conveyed on a litter of boughs by the stout arms of the shepherd and his sons.— Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

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