"
Rose cast a hasty look at Josephine. Josephine's eyes were bent on the
ground, and her hands clenched and trembling.
"Now, Jacintha, you be off," said the doctor. "I can't have cowards
about him to make the others as bad. Go and stew down a piece of good
beef for him. Stew it in red wine and water."
"That I will: poor thing!"
"Why, I know him," said the baroness suddenly; "it is an old
acquaintance, young Dujardin: you remember, Josephine. I used to suspect
him of a fancy for you, poor fellow! Why, he must have come here to see
us, poor soul."
"No matter who it is; it is a man. Now, girls, have you courage, have
you humanity? Then come one on each side of him and take hands beneath
his back, while I lift his head and Dard his legs."
"And handle him gently whatever you do," said Dard. "I know what it is
to be wounded."
These four carried the lifeless burden very slowly and gently across the
Pleasaunce to the house, then with more difficulty and caution up the
stairs.
All the while the sisters' hands griped one another tight beneath the
lifeless burden, and spoke to one another.
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