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Updated: May 25, 2025
But the bridegroom himself lay on his bed, the victim of a convalescent's set-back, and it seemed doubtful whether his strength would support him through the ceremony.
I will continue visiting him as long as the doctor says it is important that I should; but you must defend me, Lurida, I know you can explain it all so that people will not blame me." Euthymia knew full well what the effect of Lurida's penetrating head-voice would be in a convalescent's chamber.
I admitted such was the case. 'Well, the consequence of this fall in temperature is that the convalescent's mind turns towards thoughts of suicide. Then is the time he should be watched by his friends. Then was the time Mr. Barrie Kipson's friends did not watch him. You remember the 21st, of course. No? It was a most depressing day. Fog all around and mud under foot. Very good.
She had passed the fountain; her head came into the moonlight, and Melissa could see the dear, kind face. With glad excitement she called her by name, and as the matron entered the veranda she heard the convalescent's weak voice and hastened to her side.
Then we opened the window and the paper was cast forth again. The doctor solemnly promised not to interfere with it, and I gave him a convalescent's word of honor to report progress honestly. Several days elapsed, and I no longer found time heavy on my hands. My attention was divided between two papers, the scrap in the square and my daily copy of the Times.
"I should have had to get a considerable move on, at that rate," grinned Aaron. "Oh, no. You might quite like them here." But Lilly saw the white frown of determined revulsion on the convalescent's face. "Wouldn't you?" he asked. Aaron shook his head. "No," he said. And it was obvious he objected to the topic. "What are you going to do about your move on?" "Me!" said Lilly.
Terry was thoroughly well, only with an insatiable appetite, and he viewed his fellow convalescent's love with double wonder when he found it caused oblivion of hunger, especially as Frank still looked gaunt and sallow, and was avowedly not returned to his usual health.
'Nothing is the matter; but we are going for a walk, and want you. Miss Maria, he cried, as the sound of the unfeminine step and voice brought in one of the heads, 'please do let off these impositions, we do so want her! 'What, you here! This is an invasion! she added good-humouredly. 'Am I to take it as a convalescent's privilege?
Finally Erasistratus persuaded the matron, who seemed to have forgotten her previous exhaustion, to share the consultation, but the convalescent's heart throbbed faster as he watched the famous leeches.
The way did not go far, and her attempt to trace it was as weak and spasmodic as a convalescent's first efforts to pick up the thread of living. She seemed to herself like some one struggling to rise from a long sickness of which it would have been so much easier to die.
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