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Morgan, shutting the book, "is that Ah like the fellow, and Ah don't want to shoot him all up fo' nothing. And, as Ah said befo', Ah sho' do think the fever's coming on him." "What are you going to do?" "Blest if Ah know!" "What answer did you send?" "Ah told Bud to tell him Ah'd attend to it when the mud dried." "Good. That'll give you two or three days to find out what's the matter with him.
An' please your honour, do not sigh so piteously, I would say to him as I laid besides him. I cannot help it, Trim, my master would say, 'tis so melancholy an accident I cannot get it off my heart. Your honour fears not death yourself. I hope, Trim, I fear nothing, he would say, but the doing a wrong thing. Well, he would add, whatever betides, I will take care of Le Fever's boy.
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 way from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down. He rages like a brute beast.
But your honour's two razors shall be new set and I will get my Montero cap furbish'd up, and put on poor lieutenant Le Fever's regimental coat, which your honour gave me to wear for his sake and as soon as your honour is clean shaved and has got your clean shirt on, with your blue and gold, or your fine scarlet sometimes one and sometimes t'other and every thing is ready for the attack we'll march up boldly, as if 'twas to the face of a bastion; and whilst your honour engages Mrs.
The corporal had array'd himself in poor Le Fever's regimental coat; and with his hair tuck'd up under his Montero-cap, which he had furbish'd up for the occasion, march'd three paces distant from his master: a whiff of military pride had puff'd out his shirt at the wrist; and upon that in a black leather thong clipp'd into a tassel beyond the knot, hung the corporal's stick my uncle Toby carried his cane like a pike.
I was up long before Drayton. I had secured Browne's confidences before the sun had been risen an hour. 'I've had a sort of miserable ague, he said. 'A cold and hot fever has been plaguing me. Some part of this last night has been savagely horrible. But I've sweated pounds of my weight away, and my fever's gone. Strange, isn't it?
My fever's gone now, and I'm feeling pretty rocky and mean. Sleep's a grand pick-me-up." They took off their coats, and lay down then under filmy mosquito bars, and presently sleep came to them. He was a man who at all times was extraordinarily watchful and alert.
Will you, father?" she continued inexorably, looking at him. "Yes, yes!" said Ellen desperately, kissing her lips to make her stop talking. The child turned over contentedly, and in another moment she was asleep. "She's not hot now," whispered Pelle. "I think the fever's gone." His face was very grave.
The inventory completed, he turned his head at the sound of a voice hers calling from the doorway to some one without. "He's getting along fine, Ba'tiste." Barry liked the tone and the enthusiastic manner of speaking. "His fever's gone down. I should think " "Ah, oui!" had come the answer in booming bass. "And has he, what you say, come to?" "Not yet. But I think he ought to, soon." "Oui!
"He's going to take a heap of nursing," the doctor answered, rubbing his unshaven chin dubiously with the palm of his hand. "See how the fever's climbed up even in the last half hour. That boy's going to be a mighty sick hombre." "I'm used to nursing, and Juanita is the best help I ever had, if she is a Mexican. You may trust him to us." "Hmp! I wasn't thinking of him, but of you.
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