Barry Pain

Name: The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould
Author: Barry Pain

The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

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“The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould”, published in 1905, is a work by Barry Pain. It explores elements such as Gould, third birthday and third.

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ Gould made a fool of himself. He whipped the doctor off into the dining-room, and talked so loudly that I could hear in the drawing-room. “Look here, doctor,” he said, “you must keep her alive for another nine hours. You can do it if you like, you know. Use more stimulants. You want to flog that heart. Keep it going somehow. Were you trying oxygen?”
“Mr. Gould,” said the doctor, “you know that your mother refuses to see any other doctor, and that any attempt to force one upon her would certainly be fatal. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ The maid who was unpacking for me asked me if I would lunch downstairs with Mr. Gould or if I preferred to lunch in my own room. It is always well to get to know one's enemy, and I did not hesitate. A few minutes later I was sitting down to lunch alone with a man whom two hours before I had never seen in my life, and of whom I now knew very little, and nothing which was not dead against him. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ At six o'clock I was quite ready. Mr. Gould now seemed a little nervous and excited. He kept on giving me fragments of stupid advice and telling me things that he had told me before. The interview was to be a very short one, and the doctor and the nurse were both in the dimly lit room when I entered it, though they stood at some distance from the bed. On the bed lay the dying woman—a handsome old Jewess, with whity-yellow skin of one even tint, colourless lips, and blaring eyes. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ It is impossible to cure her, but I confidently believe that by coming here you will prolong her life and make her last days much happier. As to Mr. Gould's motives, I have perhaps no right to speak. He has not confided in me. I will only give you the facts. Mrs. Gould is one of two sisters, of equal fortune, and bitterly jealous of one another. The elder sister died in her seventy-fourth year. She did not wish Mrs. Gould to have any advantage over her, and left her money to accumulate until Mrs. Gould's seventy-third birthday, when Mrs. Gould comes into it. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ Gould is a wealthy woman now, and on her seventy-third birthday, which will be in a few days' time, will be twice as wealthy. If she does not live till her seventy-third birthday the whole of her sister's money goes to the London Hospital. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ You shall have my cheque for fifty pounds as soon as we reach my house, and the rest of the money will be paid you day by day.”
“That will not do,” I said. “We will drive now to your bank, and you will draw fifty pounds in notes or gold. We shall then go on to my bank, where I shall deposit the money. After that I am at your service.”
“You are a business-like woman,” he said. “It is queer to be distrusted when one is really perfectly honest, but it shall be as you wish. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ The room will not be brightly lit, and the doctor would not permit any but the briefest interview. You will be prolonging her life for a few days, at the best I fear it cannot be for more than that, and you will remove a load of terrible suffering from her mind. For this I am ready to pay you five pounds now and one pound for every day that you remain at my house. My name is Gould—Mr. Nathan Gould. Here is my card.”
The card bore an address in Wilbraham-square, Bloomsbury. I thought the matter over for a few seconds. One can do a great deal of thinking in a few seconds. “Mr. ”

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Barry Pain, The Lone Hand (Pain) — II. Mr. Nathan Gould (1905)

“ She has doubtlessly left her money to her son, and in the event of her surviving until her seventy-third birthday he will profit.”
“Precisely. Her entire estate is left equally between Mr. Gould and his half-sister, and in the event of the death of either the whole goes to the survivor. ”

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