fix for 61123 read_excel nrows param reads extra rows #22468

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	18m 12s
Pyodide build	23m 22s
Linux-Musl	16m 21s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	25m 26s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	27m 17s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	32m 18s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	16m 19s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	16m 19s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	15m 40s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	36m 20s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	47m 3s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	38m 52s
python-freethreading	23m 14s
python-dev (macOS-13)	17m 46s
python-dev (macOS-14)	9m 52s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	20m 23s
python-dev (windows-latest)	22m 38s
Minimum Versions	24m 46s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	24m 5s
Locale: zh_CN	23m 35s
Locale: it_IT	24m 6s
Pyarrow Nightly	20m 22s
Numpy Dev	16m 45s
Downstream Compat	6m 4s
Future infer strings	30m 49s
Pypy	1m 19s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	27m 55s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	27m 6s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	30m 21s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	34m 17s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	37m 49s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	31m 48s
	12h 48m 29s

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