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“The Use of Force” is a house call for the doctor to come and check their sick daughter. The doctor has never met this family, it’s a poor family house, but clean with benevolent folks. The doctor visits the house, the mother takes the doctor into the kitchen saying “We have her in the kitchen where it is warm. It is very damp here sometimes”( 132), Showing great love for the girl. The doctor sees the sick girl named Mathilda sitting on her dad’s lap. Astonished at the beauty of the sick girl, he begins to examine the girl. The parents tell him, she might have diphtheria, they say it’s been going around the school.
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