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She still heard the brazen band, and saw the flaming lights and her ears echoed to the dreadful sounds of hissing. Sometimes she had drunk feverishly of the very doubtful water against which Emile had so often cautioned her. When it was nearly dawn she gave in, and lay huddled up on the bed, half-delirious with the pain and feeling of suffocation.
Sometimes, amid these sad thoughts of the dying man, the clangour of clarions blared out there was a call to arms on the ramparts. And these musics came to him in his half-delirious state very mournfully, like the trumpets proclaiming the Judgment Day. Yes, it might well be feared that the Day of Wrath was here!
Aunt Jane was really kind, and Gillian was grateful, but oh, how she longed for her mother! There was no better news the next morning. Nothing had been heard of Alexis, and nothing would persuade his mother in her half-delirious and wholly unreasonable state that he had not been sent to prison, and that they were not keeping it from her.
She was half-delirious all night, and begged and begged " "She doesn't want you to go?" The Doctor ran his fingers through his hair. "Well, we've been a lot to each other. But she's such a little sport and patriotic nobody more so. She won't feel this way when she's herself again." Derry stood drearily at the window looking out. "You think then she won't be able to see me for several days?
The parting clasp of the hand had a world of meaning in it, and Nuttie openly said that she hoped to tell him after matins at St. Michael's how the boy was. But she could not be there. When she went upstairs at night the half-delirious terrors had returned, and there was another difficult soothing and comforting before the child slept again.
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