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rabidsamfan"Work!" I cried, stung by the return of my own words. "The kind of work that drives you into an early grave? You said yourself that every pestilential child was a hazard."
"That's the same risk every doctor takes," he protested.
"Every doctor hasn't had pneumonia twice since the year began!" I said. "Anstruther all but ordered you to rest for a month at least."
"I need hardly sell out my livelihood to take a holiday," he asserted angrily. "And besides, I hate sitting idle and useless, you know that, Holmes. At least my patients need me."
I need you.
"That's the same risk every doctor takes," he protested.
"Every doctor hasn't had pneumonia twice since the year began!" I said. "Anstruther all but ordered you to rest for a month at least."
"I need hardly sell out my livelihood to take a holiday," he asserted angrily. "And besides, I hate sitting idle and useless, you know that, Holmes. At least my patients need me."
I need you.
