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The Story of Le Fever Continued. The sun looked bright the morning after, to every eye in the village but Le Fever's and his afflicted son's; the hand of death pressed heavy upon his eye-lids, and hardly could the wheel at the cistern turn round its circle, when my uncle Toby, who had rose up an hour before his wonted time, entered the lieutenant's room, and without preface or apology, sat himself down upon the chair by the bed-side, and, independently of all modes and customs, opened the curtain in the manner an old friend and brother officer would have done it, and asked him how he did, how he had rested in the night, what was his complaint, where was his pain, and what he could do to help him: and without giving him time to answer any one of the enquiries, went on, and told him of the little plan which he had been concerting with the corporal the night before for him.
Much as we have gained, we have not yet thoroughly shaken off the notion that poison is the natural food of disease, as wholesome aliment is the support of health. Cowper's lines, in "The Task," show the matter-of-course practice of his time: "He does not scorn it, who has long endured A fever's agonies, and fed on drugs." Dr.
He had had another crisis, I found, but he was better again by the time I got to him. Then he improved a little, and seemed to be convalescing. Then malaria chose to interfere with the running of her sister fever's course. This seemed extraordinarily meddlesome, and made things hazardous still, though they were as well as one expected, when the time of my going on leave came.
"His mind has just cleared itself of the fever's fog, thank God!" cried Victor, heartily. "He will live, then," replied Brother Jacques, sadly; and continued his pacing. After a few moments Victor went below again, and the priest mused aloud: "Yes, he will live; misfortune and misery are long-lived." All about him rolled the smooth waters, touched faintly with the first pallor of dawn.
He's comin' again." 'She pointed to the veranda, an' by the Hoight av Impart'nince, the Corp'ril man was comin' out av Bragin's quarters. "He's done that these five evenin's past," sez Annie Bragin. "Oh, fwhat will I do!" "He'll not do ut again," sez I, for I was fightin' mad. 'Kape away from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down. He rages like a brute beast.
And as they listened there seemed to come a touch of the Spirit's presence upon them all. And so the day was a blessed one. Its close found her husband back again. And as he greeted her he said quietly, "My dear, you did as I said, didn't you? The fever's gone." Gideon's Band: Sifted for Service. God Wants the Best. God's Use of Weak Things. Call for Volunteers. A Willing People.
He laid a hand on the moist forehead. "That's good. Fever's gone." "It will come back. It always does." There was anxious dread in the tone. "It won't this time." Uncle William sat nodding at him mildly. "I know how you feel kind o' scared to believe anything anything that's good." The artist smiled. "You never felt that way!" "Jest that way," said Uncle William.
"What on earth's the use," said she, "of talking to a child that's out of her head? she can't hear reason; that's the way she gets into whenever the fever's on her. I have the pleasure of hearing that sort of thing all the time. Come away, Mrs. Vawse, and leave her; she can't be better any way than alone, and I am in the room every other thing she's just as well quiet.
"He's all right now," said the cheery tenor voice from the big bearded face. "Oh, Mr. McTurg; do you think so?" "Ye-e-s, sir. He's all right. The fever's left him. Brace up, old man. We need ye yit awhile." Then all was silent agam. The well mouth cleared away its mist again, and he saw more clearly. Part of the time he knew he was in bed staring at the ceiling.
It was the work of an American, James Stanley Gilbert, who had lived for six years on the Isthmus, and had seen most of his friends die there. Gilbert's lines have, therefore, a certain excusable tinge of morbidity, as, for example: "Beyond the Chagres River Are paths that lead to death: To fever's deadly breezes, To malaria's poisonous breath."
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