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"Oh dear, what a lot of things one has to learn when they go into business!" mused Kit. "I thought we were doing just right." That afternoon the bicycle was being repaired by old Bill Colby, a fine old man who lived with his invalid wife in a small shack on the back street. He took such pride in his work that the bicycle looked like new when he finished it. And the pay warmed his heart.
"No doubt," said Dick, and after a moment's pause he added, "Did it snow much up here?" "But lightly. The clouds seem to have avoided these mountains. It was only from your delirium that I gathered the news of the great storm on the plains. Now, I think you've talked enough for an invalid. Drop you head back on that buffalo robe and go to sleep again."
I varied the monotony of my invalid existence by keeping a journal. The journal of a sick chamber must naturally be barren of incident. Mine was a diary of reflections rather than acts.
The white signal fluttering from the lilac bushes had been discarded long ago, and Peace was welcome whenever she came now, for with her peculiar childish instinct, she seemed to know when the invalid found her chatter wearisome.
Meanwhile, Agathocles had essayed to exert his authority over the invalid, and was protesting volubly against the latter's imprudence. Sergius was in excellent humour, despite the escape of his conquest. "Nonsense, my Agathocles," he began, half guiltily at first, but gaining confidence as he pursued his justification.
She must have a change when a little stronger." So, on her return to consciousness, Sally found herself put to bed and declared an invalid. Peggy insisted on being installed as chief nurse. "But I shall go down-stairs to-day, Peggy," spoke Sally on the morning of Wednesday. "I heard Nurse Johnson say last night that thy father was to start for Lancaster this afternoon." "He is, Sally.
"The desert," Lucia answered. "A lot of gol darn sand!" the invalid whined. "The sky, then!" Lucia affirmed. But Uncle Henry merely repeated "The sky!" in whole-hearted disgust. Lucia refused to be downed. "But think of the glorious colors blue and gold and purple!" "And no grass nor nothin'," the invalid retorted. "Not even a place to go fishin'. And you call it beau Say, was you ever in Bangor?"
Up and dressed, and looking first-rate for an invalid," he called out from the door, and then, advancing, took one of her thin hands with much gentleness, and said, "Getting well, ain't you? That's right. I am so glad. Creepin' through mercy, eh? as Father Root used to say."
It was long ere sleep visited him. He had many subjects on which to ruminate; there were many points which the morrow would clear up. His mind was too busy to permit him to rest. When he did, however, close his eyes; he slept soundly, and did not awake till the broad glare of day, penetrating through the Venetian blinds, disclosed to him the unfamiliar apartment at Beverley's. The Invalid.
He was a man of about thirty-three, clean-shaven, dark-haired, with an expression of cleverness; yet with an irresponsible something about him which M. Fille had reflected upon with concern. For this slim, eager, talkative, half- invalid visitor to St.
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