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Updated: May 24, 2025
My step-mother would not have me at home. She hates the Christians, and my father yielded to her, though, personally, he is indifferent and says that everyone has a right to believe what he pleases." "Why didst thou return? Is thy step-mother satisfied?" Hermione asked eagerly. "Only a few weeks ago. My father's wife has been very ill. She is only now convalescing.
Miss Manisty explained. 'An American? Really? I was quite off the scent, But now I see I see! Let me guess. She is a New Englander not from Boston, but from the country. I remember the type exactly. The year I was at Washington I spent some weeks in the summer convalescing at a village up in the hills of Maine. The women there seemed to me the salt of the earth. May I go and talk to her?
He convinced me of that." She made a swift gesture towards Mills' vanishing figure. "I ran across him first in London. He was convalescing from a leg wound. That was shortly after I was married, and I was helping entertain these stray dogs from the front. It was quite the fashion. People took them out motoring and so on.
About once a month, however, he wrote a short story, and of late, now that he was convalescing from Maupassant and had begun to be somewhat himself, these stories had improved in quality, and one or two had even been copied in the Eastern journals. He earned $100 a month.
And, fortunately, just at that time my brother Andre, who is one of the leading lawyers of Paris, came to the chateau to see and cheer me up while I was convalescing. I laid the whole matter before him, and he went into it thoroughly.
Hugh felt the distance Elizabeth maintained and also the fact that she was not well. How he hated it when she had to lift him for his medicine. Doctor Morgan had especially talked about her lifting when she was at first convalescing. His heart was very bad that night. About three o'clock the next afternoon Elizabeth tiptoed in to see if he slept. "I'm awake," he said without opening his eyes.
In itself it was of no importance at all, but he was overcome with delight, as people are delighted with the first words that show returning interest in earthly matters on the part of a convalescing friend whose soul has long been hovering on the borders of death.
And when the sick man would wake up at night, he would often see his servant seated in an armchair, weeping silently. Never had the old druggist been so cared for, so fondled, so spoiled. At first he had said to himself: "As soon as I am well I shall get rid of this rascal." He was now convalescing, and from day to day he would put off dismissing his murderer.
The chains were thrown off after a period of twenty-seven years in this fashion. Reynolds of the Remove was indirectly the cause of the change. He was in the infirmary, convalescing after an attack of German measles, when he received a visit from Smith, an ornament of the Sixth. 'By Jove, remarked that gentleman, gazing enviously round the sick-room, 'they seem to do you pretty well here.
It is a terrible strain on him, but the only thing is to go on!" the doctor kept repeating. But when Jack lay white and still in his bedroom and Firio was rapidly convalescing, the fever refused to abate. It seemed bound to burn out the life that remained after the hemorrhage from his wounds had ceased. Men found it hard to work in the fields while they waited on the crisis.
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