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Her mother's eye caught the look and the change, and knew what both meant as well as if Sylvia had spoken out. 'Thursday se'nnight, said she. 'I'll be rare and strong by then, and Sylvie shall go play hersen; she's been nurse-tending long enough. 'You're but weakly yet, said Philip shortly; he did not intend to say it, but the words seemed to come out in spite of himself.
No; the doctors had time to congregate around his bed; Lady Scatcherd was allowed a period of nurse-tending; the sick man was able to say his last few words and bid adieu to his portion of the lower world with dying decency.
Her mother's eye caught the look and the change, and knew what both meant as well as if Sylvia had spoken out. 'Thursday se'nnight, said she. 'I'll be rare and strong by then, and Sylvie shall go play hersen; she's been nurse-tending long enough. 'You're but weakly yet, said Philip shortly; he did not intend to say it, but the words seemed to come out in spite of himself.
Often is this labour found to incapacitate the nurse-tending friend for fulfilling towards the convalescent those offices in which no menial could supply her place such as the cheering of the drooping spirit, the selection and patient perusal of amusing books, an animated, amusing companionship in their walks and drives, the humouring of their sick fancy a sickness that often increases as that of the body decreases.
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