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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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"This is a first time to make an appearance, twelve and thirty-six hours late. And now when my train is about to leave - well here you are. I greatly resent your negligence." I accused him. "Well, you see ---" "Does Dr Rivers know you are packing me off like this?" "Like what? How do you mean?" he gave answer. "Without seeing him, without a dismissal to the clinic; without adequate instructions - as usual." "Lots of patients are sent home without a clinic dismissal," he explained. "Now your roommate Mrs Robinson will be sent back to Arkansas without" and as I registered disbelief he continued, "As for the instructions we have told you all we know about ulcers. There is nothing else we can tell you." "I have known all about ulcers for a long time. You have taught me nothing. But there are plenty of things that are left undone and unsaid. Now that it is traintime and you know it, you know also that there is no time to go into that, you come in," I said in a resentful, wolf at bay attitude, "Furthermore," I added, "I have a good mind not to leave now, but to wait and see my doctor." Poor Shepherd didn't know what to do. He was on the spot, but he had his orders. Pushing down the last morsel of food, Georgia hurried me into my coat. There was no time to change my mind and I was being shoved right along home. I have always had course to regret that I didn't stay. Moreover I feel keenly even now, that had I been sent home properly with my mind at east, instead of having
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"This is a first time to make an appearance, twelve and thirty-six hours late. And now when my train is about to leave - well here you are. I greatly resent your negligence." I accused him. "Well, you see ---" "Does Dr Rivers know you are packing me off like this?" "Like what? How do you mean?" he gave answer. "Without seeing him, without a dismissal to the clinic; without adequate instructions - as usual." "Lots of patients are sent home without a clinic dismissal," he explained. "Now your roommate Mrs Robinson will be sent back to Arkansas without" and as I registered disbelief he continued, "As for the instructions we have told you all we know about ulcers. There is nothing else we can tell you." "I have known all about ulcers for a long time. You have taught me nothing. But there are plenty of things that are left undone and unsaid. Now that it is traintime and you know it, you know also that there is no time to go into that, you come in," I said in a resentful, wolf at bay attitude, "Furthermore," I added, "I have a good mind not to leave now, but to wait and see my doctor." Poor Shepherd didn't know what to do. He was on the spot, but he had his orders. Pushing down the last morsel of food, Georgia hurried me into my coat. There was no time to change my mind and I was being shoved right along home. I have always had course to regret that I didn't stay. Moreover I feel keenly even now, that had I been sent home properly with my mind at east, instead of having
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