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`` Quite sure . There is nothing for it now but perfect quiet , the administration of the medicines and cordials I have prescribed , when possible , and close watch of all the symptoms . I can assure you I am not without hope . You may look for me again by ten o'clock . '' And so saying , Dr. Wilson drove rapidly off , and my father went back again to Aleck 's room . I think it must have been his planning , that nurse soon afterwards came down to the school-room and bestowed her company upon me for quite a long time , entertaining me at first , or meaning to entertain me , by a wearisome narration about a little boy who lived nowhere in particular a long time ago ; but she wakened up all my interest when at last , unable to keep off the subject as she had intended , she gave me a detailed account of my cousin having been put into the bed in the spare room ; and how he had lain so still , she could scarcely believe her senses he was not dead ; and how , when Dr. Wilson set his arm , the pain of the operation seemed to waken him up for a moment from the stupor , but he had gone back again almost immediately . `` The doctor said , '' she added , `` that it was the injury to the head that was of the greatest consequence -- the arm was nothing to signify , a mere simple fracture ; as if a broken arm were a mere nothing .