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"If she had only warned us, you could have been lying on a sofa, with the blinds down, and I could have been holding your hand and shaking a medicine-bottle," said Sarah. "That is how she expected to find us, she said, from your letters." "I am sure I scarcely refer to my weak health in my letters," said Mrs.
Having done so, he stooped and set his ear to her heart for a space of several seconds. Then he stood up and turned quietly round. "You can't do anything more. Thanks for fetching that stuff! Why didn't you put on your slippers as I told you?" His manner was perfectly normal. He left the bedside and took up the medicine-bottle, holding it against the lamp.
Belcovitch spoke as if at the close of a long career devoted to avoiding Dutch alliances, forgetting that not even one of his daughters was yet secure. "Nor any girl of mine," said Mrs. Belcovitch, as if starting a separate proposition. "I would not trust a Dutchman with my medicine-bottle, much less with my Alte or my Becky.
"Miss Royle said you had two faces," admitted Gwendolyn. She stared hard at the coiled braids on the back of Jane's head. The braids were pinned close together. No pair of eyes was visible. Jane straightened resolutely, seized the medicine-bottle and the spoon, poured out a second dose, and proffered it. "Come, now!" she said firmly. "You ain't a-goin' to git ahead of me with your cuteness.
There's a nun up the fire-escape! A nun on the fire-escape!" and, since one word at least was familiar, a score of heads came to windows in the avenue, and were much interested. In spite of her prayers, Sister Ursula was not happy. The medicine-bottle banged and bumped in her pocket as she gripped the iron bars hand over hand and toiled aloft. "It is for the sake of a life," she panted to herself.
"She has taken her medicine, I suppose?" said Mr. Sheldon. He glanced round the room as he asked this question, but could see no trace of medicine-bottle or glass. "Yes, sir; she has taken it twice, the poor dear." "Let me look at the medicine." "The strange doctor said as I was to let no one touch it, sir." "Very likely; but that direction doesn't apply to me." "He said no one, sir."
"Why are you so particular to-day, Edith?" she continued, as that young lady flitted about, looping and relooping the soft lace curtains, pouncing on every stray speck of dust, and sweeping every medicine-bottle out of sight. "Jane tidied the room as usual this morning, and yet here you are, poking into every corner, and arranging and rearranging everything.
"I've got some Eau de Cologne in a medicine-bottle," Dora said; "my brother Noël has headaches sometimes, but I think he's going to be all right to-day. Do take it, it will do the lady's head good." "I'll take care of her head," he said, laughing, but he took the bottle and said, "Thank you." But it turned out to be time thrown away, for when he came back he said to Alice
What if that desperate woman's hatred took the most awful form? what if her secret presence in that room meant murder? I took up the medicine-bottle and examined it minutely. In colour, in odour, in taste, the medicine seemed to me exactly what it had been from the time it had been altered, in accordance with the Manchester doctor's second prescription. Mr.
As she drew near where he stood waiting, he noted that her head was bare, and that she had a medicine-bottle in her hand. He noted, too, from her gait and hurried manner, that she was greatly disturbed. She was about to pass him when he called out, cheerily, "Where away, in such a hurry?" "Oh!" She looked up and stopped. "You scared me, Alfred. I couldn't imagine who it was.
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