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And he must have this bite seen to at once. She lived not five
minutes away. He must come with her.
She had an aunt who behaved like a mother and a mother who behaved
like a genteel visitor, and they both agreed with Amanda that
although Mr. Walter Long and his dreadful muzzles and everything did
seem to have stamped out rabies, yet you couldn't be too careful
with a dog bite. A dog bite might be injurious in all sorts of
ways--particularly Sultan's bite. He was, they had to confess, a
dog without refinement, a coarse-minded omnivorous dog. Both the
elder ladies insisted upon regarding Benham's wound as clear
evidence of some gallant rescue of Amanda from imminent danger--
"she's always so RECKLESS with those dogs," as though Amanda was not
manifestly capable of taking care of herself; and when he had been
Listerined and bandaged, they would have it that he should join them
at their supper-dinner, which was already prepared and waiting.
They treated him as if he were still an undergraduate, they took his
arrangements in hand as though he was a favourite nephew.


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