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And that 's the way with them all ! There seems no one that can be tender and reasonable both at once , except your sister . ' Clement did full justice to that tenderness , when , out of sight himself , he had watched Wilmet 's soothing firmness and patient reassuring softness , at last calming the feverish agitation into a sleep , which he was allowed to see for himself was gentle and wholesome . Only then -- towards four o'clock -- could Captain Harewood persuade her to let him keep guard , while she went to take the food that had been long waiting for her , and over which she could hear Clement 's penitent explanation of his own unlucky proposal . ` I thought he seemed so well -- able to get up and all ; and they _ do _ think me a good nurse at St. Matthew 's . I nursed Fred Somers almost entirely when he had the scarlet fever . ' -LRB- Wilmet looked as if she pitied St. Matthew 's . -RRB-