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Carrie was looking out of one of the back windows of the house to get a breath of fresh air, before taking her turn of duty in the sick-room, when she saw Max talking to one of the grooms outside the stables. He saw her, and his face flushed. Mrs. Wedmore, who was standing on guard a few paces from Carrie, noted the fact with maternal anxiety.
Betsey went once or twice into the sick-room, but the old man slept peacefully. "It will not be to-night," said she softly. Then she sat down again. "Cousin," said she gravely in a little, "you are not worrying about your father, as though it may not be well with him now?" Elizabeth looked at her startled. Betsey went on: "I have been exercised about him considerably myself, one time and another.
That possessed child had a genius for simulation, and captivated by the attentions and indulgences of a sick-room, she came to the conclusion that an illness would perfectly accommodate her tastes, and took her bed accordingly.
It would ill become her to repine at her loss, so infinitely her sister's gain. The discipline of these weeks in her sister's sick-room did very much for Effie. Ever since their mother's death, and more especially since their coming to Canada, a great deal had depended on her. Wise to plan and strong to execute, she had done what few young girls in her sphere could have done.
Its effect was to straighten the admiral's back, and enlarge in grey glass a pair of sea-blue eyes. And, 'What's that? Whitechapel? the admiral exclaimed, at high pitch, far above his understanding. The particulars were repeated, whereupon the sick-room shook with, 'Greengrocer? He stunned himself with another of the monstrous points in his pet girl's honeymoon: 'A prizefight?
"To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts," &c. All that can be said here of this discourse is, that if he had known it was his last he could not have spoken more appropriately or warned more earnestly. From the preaching of this discourse he went to the sick-room, and on the 27th of September, 1864, Dr. Adams bade adieu to earth and passed away.
Presently a man wearing a corslet and waving a sword dyed red with blood appeared at the window of the sick-room. "It is done, my lord!" cried he lustily, "it is all over." "Where is the body?" asked Guise brutally. "Monseigneur d'Angoulême will not believe unless he sees the body."
"Do so, but you must at the same time fulfil some commissions which I give you for the journey." So they parted. Two years had passed, when, one day in January, Pope Silvester was summoned to Paterno, the little castle on Soracte, where the Roman-German Emperor dwelt, and now lay ill. When Silvester entered the sick-room, the Emperor sat upright, but looked troubled.
Get right ahead, milady, an' fix the boy up. Guess it's all you'll ever do for him." Diane had fled before the last words came. She had to, or she would have struck the man. She knew, only too well, how right he was about Tresler; but this cruelty was unbearable, and she went back to the sick-room utterly bereft of the last shadow of the happiness she had left it with.
Well, I s'pose it's all right: those that's got money, want money." "What be you, Eli ganging on hooks?" said Aunt Patience, as she tip-toed into the kitchen behind him, from his wife's sick-room, and softly closed the door after her. "No," said the elder of the children; "he's mending our stockings, and showing me how."
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