What is strange about Doctor Kennington's remarks to the narrator immediately after the narrator's mother dies? A) He claims the mother could have lived, if she only had the will to live.
B) He claims that he can sense that the narrator has a terminal condition.
C) He confesses that he would have used native herbs if he were not English.
D) He claims that he can see long suffering in the narrator's eyes.

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