Tell Victoria -- tell her -- to be good to you -- '' His voice died away into an inarticulate murmur . Eunice Carr was alone with her dead . They buried Christopher Holland in haste and privacy the next day . The doctor disinfected the house , and Eunice was to stay there alone until it might be safe to make other arrangements . She had not shed a tear ; the doctor thought she was a rather odd person , but he had a great admiration for her . He told her she was the best nurse he had ever seen . To Eunice , praise or blame mattered nothing . Something in her life had snapped -- some vital interest had departed . She wondered how she could live through the dreary , coming years . Late that night she went into the room where her mother and brother had died . The window was open and the cold , pure air was grateful to her after the drug-laden atmosphere she had breathed so long . She knelt down by the stripped bed . `` Mother , '' she said aloud , `` I have kept my promise . '' When she tried to rise , long after , she staggered and fell across the bed , with her hand pressed on her heart . Old Giles Blewett found her there in the morning . There was a smile on her face . XIII . THE CONSCIENCE CASE OF DAVID BELL Eben Bell came in with an armful of wood and banged it cheerfully down in the box behind the glowing Waterloo stove , which was coloring the heart of the little kitchen 's gloom with tremulous , rose-red whirls of light . `` There , sis , that 's the last chore on my list . Bob 's milking .
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