Van Gogh Painting

Van Gogh Painting
Get a wet sponge, Dad - quick!" she cried, "a sponge, - and, if you've got such a thing, a drop o' brandy. I'll see after her!" And then, after he had got the little medicine flask, "I can't think what's wrong with Ellen," said Daisy wonderingly. "She seemed quite all right when I first came in. She was listening, interested-like, to what I was telling her, and then, suddenly - well, you saw how she was took, father? 'Taint like Ellen this, is now?"
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"No," he whispered. "No, 'taint. But you see, child, we've been going through a pretty bad time - worse nor I should ever have let you know of, my dear. Ellen's just feeling it now - that's what it is. She didn't say nothing, for Ellen's a good plucked one, but it's told on her - it's told on her!"
And then Mrs. Bunting, sitting up, slowly opened her eyes, and instinctively put her hand up to her head to see if her hair was all right.
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