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“
What
is
the
matter
,
mother
?
”
he
said
.
“
Oh
,
Diamond
,
my
darling
!
you
have
been
so
ill
!
”
she
sobbed
.
“
No
,
mother
dear
.
I
’
ve
only
been
at
the
back
of
the
north
wind
,
”
returned
Diamond
.
“
I
thought
you
were
dead
,
”
said
his
mother
.
But
that
moment
the
doctor
came
in
.
“
Oh
!
there
!
”
said
the
doctor
with
gentle
cheerfulness
;
“
we
’
re
better
to
-
day
,
I
see
.
”
Then
he
drew
the
mother
aside
,
and
told
her
not
to
talk
to
Diamond
,
or
to
mind
what
he
might
say
;
for
he
must
be
kept
as
quiet
as
possible
.
And
indeed
Diamond
was
not
much
inclined
to
talk
,
for
he
felt
very
strange
and
weak
,
which
was
little
wonder
,
seeing
that
all
the
time
he
had
been
away
he
had
only
sucked
a
few
lumps
of
ice
,
and
there
could
not
be
much
nourishment
in
them
.
Now
while
he
is
lying
there
,
getting
strong
again
with
chicken
broth
and
other
nice
things
,
I
will
tell
my
readers
what
had
been
taking
place
at
his
home
,
for
they
ought
to
be
told
it
.
They
may
have
forgotten
that
Miss
Coleman
was
in
a
very
poor
state
of
health
.
Now
there
were
three
reasons
for
this
.
In
the
first
place
,
her
lungs
were
not
strong
.
In
the
second
place
,
there
was
a
gentleman
somewhere
who
had
not
behaved
very
well
to
her
.
In
the
third
place
,
she
had
not
anything
particular
to
do
.
These
three
nots
together
are
enough
to
make
a
lady
very
ill
indeed
.
Of
course
she
could
not
help
the
first
cause
;
but
if
the
other
two
causes
had
not
existed
,
that
would
have
been
of
little
consequence
;
she
would
only
have
to
be
a
little
careful
.
The
second
she
could
not
help
quite
;
but
if
she
had
had
anything
to
do
,
and
had
done
it
well
,
it
would
have
been
very
difficult
for
any
man
to
behave
badly
to
her
.
And
for
this
third
cause
of
her
illness
,
if
she
had
had
anything
to
do
that
was
worth
doing
,
she
might
have
borne
his
bad
behaviour
so
that
even
that
would
not
have
made
her
ill
.
It
is
not
always
easy
,
I
confess
,
to
find
something
to
do
that
is
worth
doing
,
but
the
most
difficult
things
are
constantly
being
done
,
and
she
might
have
found
something
if
she
had
tried
.
Her
fault
lay
in
this
,
that
she
had
not
tried
.
But
,
to
be
sure
,
her
father
and
mother
were
to
blame
that
they
had
never
set
her
going
.
Only
then
again
,
nobody
had
told
her
father
and
mother
that
they
ought
to
set
her
going
in
that
direction
.
So
as
none
of
them
would
find
it
out
of
themselves
,
North
Wind
had
to
teach
them
.
We
know
that
North
Wind
was
very
busy
that
night
on
which
she
left
Diamond
in
the
cathedral
.
She
had
in
a
sense
been
blowing
through
and
through
the
Colemans
’
house
the
whole
of
the
night
.
First
,
Miss
Coleman
’
s
maid
had
left
a
chink
of
her
mistress
’
s
window
open
,
thinking
she
had
shut
it
,
and
North
Wind
had
wound
a
few
of
her
hairs
round
the
lady
’
s
throat
.
She
was
considerably
worse
the
next
morning
.
Again
,
the
ship
which
North
Wind
had
sunk
that
very
night
belonged
to
Mr
.
Coleman
.
Nor
will
my
readers
understand
what
a
heavy
loss
this
was
to
him
until
I
have
informed
them
that
he
had
been
getting
poorer
and
poorer
for
some
time
.
He
was
not
so
successful
in
his
speculations
as
he
had
been
,
for
he
speculated
a
great
deal
more
than
was
right
,
and
it
was
time
he
should
be
pulled
up
.
It
is
a
hard
thing
for
a
rich
man
to
grow
poor
;
but
it
is
an
awful
thing
for
him
to
grow
dishonest
,
and
some
kinds
of
speculation
lead
a
man
deep
into
dishonesty
before
he
thinks
what
he
is
about
.
Poverty
will
not
make
a
man
worthless
—
he
may
be
worth
a
great
deal
more
when
he
is
poor
than
he
was
when
he
was
rich
;
but
dishonesty
goes
very
far
indeed
to
make
a
man
of
no
value
—
a
thing
to
be
thrown
out
in
the
dust
-
hole
of
the
creation
,
like
a
bit
of
a
broken
basin
,
or
a
dirty
rag
.
So
North
Wind
had
to
look
after
Mr
.
Coleman
,
and
try
to
make
an
honest
man
of
him
.
So
she
sank
the
ship
which
was
his
last
venture
,
and
he
was
what
himself
and
his
wife
and
the
world
called
ruined
.
