Capitolo 27
although--it feared, it respected, and it loved the man.
Only he could not teach them to be sanitary. He knew their names,
their Russian and foolish names and their Polish and foolish names; he knew
their Slavic and their Bohemian names but their language that he did
doesn't know, and the whole hygiene that they could learn was to require
him when illness and trouble came to them.
"Holds clean", he would say. "Exhausts Your wine cellars; you air and holds
clean; try to hold clean!"
But as you/they could do that? Four great families in a small house
you don't help very to hold a small house cleaned and sanitary.
The Dr. Redfield knew that, and he swore to Duck City for a coward and
gross hole. Then it made the people they swear to Duck City and many of
they stopped to suddenly live there. For, despite the strength and
the courage of their champion; despite the power of medicines; despite
the sleepless nights and days spent in to fight against illness the,
deadly contagion grew and shed.
The Dr. Redfield had overcome first epidemics, but never one
as this, and its energy had now gone. For the first time in his
life the impulse had come on him to possess defeats and surrender.
Other men, the youngest doctors that he, should take on the struggle. As
for him, he could not fight against such disparities. He would give him/it
on; he would go away. He would pick up this small boy with him and
you start to live.
"I will do him/it", he said, the face of pressing David against his/her cable
and non trimmed cheek. "I will make him/it the small boy,; I will be Your
father."
Then David asked encouragingly:
"Is it Your portrait that Mother holds in his/her heart?"
"No, David; not the mine, I am afraid."
This was a sad hit to the small boy. A very solemn glance came
in his/her face.
"You won't do", he said, "unless you can find Your portrait in
Mother's heart."
For a the Dr. Redfield of second time smiled, and then he asked:
"How did it get here?"
David didn't answer to the question; he didn't perhaps feel that that
it was said to him. A thoughtful glance had entered its face, and