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Marston expressing the sentiment of each of us when she said that she thought visitors were very much in the way when there was illness in the house, and that she regretted that she and her husband had arranged to stay over Sunday, to-day being Friday. "So have I," said Carr; "but I am sure I had better have refused. A stranger in a sick-house is a positive nuisance.
Papias was brought up with the children of Marcus and Dada Cecilia, while his sister Agne, finding herself relieved of all care on his account, sought and found her own way through life. Orpheus, after seeing his parents killed in the fight at the Serapeum, was carried, sorely wounded, to the sick-house of which Eusebius was spiritual director.
Well, a man's wife took sick, and he went and noticed it. They came down then with bands of men they had, and took her away to the sick-house, and he heard nothing more till he heard she was dead, and was to be buried in the morning. At that time there was such fear and hurry and dread on every person, they were burying people they had no hope of, and they with life within them.
His carts are made, his mill kept in order, his coopering and blacksmithing are all done by them. "All these buildings," said he, "even to the dwelling-house, were built after the great storm of 1831, by the slaves." As we were passing through the hospital, or sick-house, as it is called by the blacks, Mr. C. told us he had very little use for it now.
"Best go into the hospital and see if thy poor dying folk have taken any harm of the fright before thou lookest after me." "The Captain has gone into the sick-house. I'll hold on to you," returned the Doctor curtly, and Brewster yielded with his ever gracious smile.
For a moment he stood in prayer, and then raised his shapely hand and blessed him thrice, and then bid us bear him to the sick-house, where sisters nursed him tenderly to life, and won him back much of strength and health but never the gift, the abbot called God's noblest gift for he had left that for ever behind in the château on the hill.
On account of the stimulus to industry which wages afford, there is far less feigned sickness than there was during slavery. When slaves, the negroes were glad to find any excuse for deserting their labor, and they were incessantly feigning sickness. The sick-house was thronged with real and pretended invalids. After '34, it was wholly deserted.
It was vain to dispute with them, although it was often manifest that nothing earthly was ailing them. They would say, 'Ah! me massa, you no tink how bad me feel it's deep in, massa. But all this trouble is passed. We have no sick-house now; no feigned sickness, and really much less actual illness than formerly.
"I have seen my father since then," replied Charles, "and I fear his illness is much more serious than I had any idea of. That being the case, I feel it would be wrong to press any one, even Middleton, to stay and share the tedium of a sick-house." After a few more civil speeches it was arranged that Carr should, after all, leave by the train which he had proposed in the morning.
I except' here his eye swept the back benches 'our friend and companion Beetle, from whom, now as always, I demand an absolutely literal translation. The form laughed subserviently. 'Spare his blushes! Beetle charms us first. Beetle stood up, confident in the possession of a guaranteed construe, left behind by M'Turk, who had that day gone into the sick-house with a cold.
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