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pang seized him as he thought of the child, and he won-
dered whether she would miss him, at first perhaps, but in a
week she would have forgotten him; and he was thankful to
be rid of Mildred. He did not think of her with wrath, but
with an overwhelming sense of boredom.
‘I hope to God I never see her again,’ he said aloud.
The only thing now was to leave the rooms, and he made
up his mind to give notice the next morning. He could not
afford to make good the damage done, and he had so lit-
tle money left that he must find cheaper lodgings still. He
would be glad to get out of them. The expense had wor-
ried him, and now the recollection of Mildred would be in
them always. Philip was impatient and could never rest till
he had put in action the plan which he had in mind; so on
the following afternoon he got in a dealer in second-hand
furniture who offered him three pounds for all his goods
damaged and undamaged; and two days later he moved
into the house opposite the hospital in which he had had
rooms when first he became a medical student. The land-
lady was a very decent woman. He took a bed-room at the
top, which she let him have for six shillings a week; it was
small and shabby and looked on the yard of the house that
backed on to it, but he had nothing now except his clothes
and a box of books, and he was glad to lodge so cheaply.

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