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She seems strong in mind and body, quite aware of the danger, and quite prepared for every thing. She has allowed her friends to take charge of Harriet and Alfred: they are with us just now. Mr Monteath and his daughters are much concerned at this illness, and so are the Franklins. Mrs F. shews her kindness in a very acceptable manner.
The ticking of his watch was the only sound that he heard. It was too dark to see what time it was, but when he imagined he had been sitting about two hours, the loud ringing of a bell broke the silence, and disturbed poor Monteath, who had really been asleep. He attempted to move, but the attempt extorted a deep groan. Charles sprang to the bedside, and spoke to him.
I think he may be quite as happy as he has ever been." "There is one thing more that you have not mentioned," said Miss Monteath, "the acquisition of a new friend." "True," said the Quaker, "of a friend whose faithfulness was singularly proved during the first hours of intercourse."
He soon walked very well with his new leg, and was so active and strong, that Charles asked him whether he expected to be pitied any more, and if he did, on what account. Monteath replied, that the misfortune was no great one, to be sure, but that no one but himself knew how many and how various had been the little trials he had had to go through since he had last parted with Charles.
"I cannot help," said Monteath, "applying cases like these to myself, just now. I want to place as many guides and as many warnings before me as possible. I hope it is not selfish to think of these things with a reference to myself, and to tell you that I do so." "By no means," replied Charles; "for I imagine that you feel the present time as a kind of crisis in your character.
Mrs Monteath left them together. "I rejoice to see you so much better and happier than when I left you," said Charles. "Much better and much happier," replied he. "I am glad that you have seen me again; for I am sure all your thoughts of me must have been melancholy thoughts; and I wish that my friend should see me in other hours than those of weakness and misery."
She had returned to Scotland in the autumn, and Monteath was to take two of his sisters to spend some time with her the next summer. Charles afterwards expressed his obligations to the Miss Monteaths, for the kind interest they had taken in his sisters' plans.
In the mean time, think whose hand has brought this evil upon you, and remember that he is pitying your pain. He also gives strength and courage to those who ask for them." "I will seek for them," replied Monteath. "Leave me for a while: I will try to compose my mind, and strengthen myself for these hours of pain." Charles drew the curtains round the bed, and sat down in the window-seat.
Conversation with a friend is a great cordial in times of anxiety, and I own that I am anxious now." He said this for the purpose of drawing his friend's attention from a subject which appeared to agitate him too much. Charles was not wrong in expecting his ready sympathy. Isabella's illness was mentioned, and Monteath forgot himself in his anxiety for Charles.
"All things are by comparison," said Charles, rather confused when he recollected what he had said about his sister. "I do not mean that she never flags: I was only speaking of her in comparison with myself, and with her former self." "Nothing but religious principle could enable her to do this," said Monteath. "This is the secret of her superiority, is it not?
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