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@ 2009-12-06 19:33 Tornatore
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Told her to come again next day, and when she went he sent for her ahead
of her turn, and after that made her come to his office at his private
house, instead of to the infirmary, as at first. He turned out to be the
surgeon who had been at her house with the Yankees during the war. He
was very kind to her. I suppose he had never seen anyone like her. She
used to go every day, and soon dispensed with her friend's escort,
finding no difficulty in getting about. Indeed, she came to be known on
the streets she passed through, and on the cars she travelled by, and
people guided her. Several times as she was taking the wrong car men
stopped her, and said to her, "Madam, yours is the red car." She said,
sure enough it was, but she never could divine how they knew. She
addressed the conductors as, "My dear sir", and made them help her not
only off, but quite to the sidewalk, when she thanked them, and said
"Good-by", as if she had been at home. She said she did this on
principle, for it was such a good thing to teach them to help a feeble
woman. Next time they would expect to do it, and after a while it would
become a habit. She said no one knew what terror women had of being run
over and trampled on. She was, as I have said, an awful coward. She used
to stand still on the edge of the street and look up and down both ways
ever so long, then go out in the street and stand still, look both ways
and then run back; or as like as not start on and turn and run b

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