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"I'll have it for her in a minute," and Ellen went out into the kitchen. Burns looked up at Miss Ruston. "As soon as she has had her tea she must go to bed. She has stood the journey well, but she needs a long rest after it." Then he looked again at Mrs. Rodney Rutherford Chase.
After a long and rather angry struggle with himself, he made up his mind to a compromise, and in one of their cooler talks together, he offered it. "We've both of us pretty well lost our sense of proportion, it seems to me," he said. "This whole ghastly business started from my refusing to let Mrs. Ruston go and get a nurse who'd allow you to be your own nurse-maid.
Whatever help he was now to give his friend must be given, not through speech but through silence, and by that subtler means of communication between spirit and spirit which cannot be analyzed or understood, but which may be more real than anything in life. They went downstairs, presently, and rejoined the party. Miss Ruston and Miss Mathewson, Mr.
In a week or two more I'll turn him loose. Looks pretty healthy, doesn't he?" "I'm entirely able to walk in with Miss Ruston now," said Leaver, standing, hat in hand, in the road, as Charlotte adjusted her belongings and prepared to walk rapidly away. "That's my affair, for a bit longer," and Burns put out a peremptory hand. "Be good and jump in.
Ruston and Doris were both waiting in the hall. "I must go now," she said. "Good-by. Keep them carefully for me." Her voice was steady, and though her eyes were bright, there was no trace of tears upon her cheeks. But there was a kind of glory shining in her face that was too much for Doris, who turned away and sobbed loudly. Even Mrs. Ruston's eyes were wet.
"I thought those were the things one looked toward, not out of?" "Your patients looking toward 'the black unknown, and seeing your face, must find their future lighted with hope!" He turned and looked at his wife, a sparkle in his eye. "She's from the big town," said he. "Here in the country we don't know how to give fine, fascinating blarney like that, eh? Good-bye, Miss Ruston, and good luck.
"You said there was an old lady to come, too?" "A most beautiful little old lady, whom Miss Ruston seemed to be very anxious over, lest she suffer any harm. Dr. Burns, when he heard of it, insisted on coming over here to make sure the house could be made perfectly dry and comfortable for her." "He was right.
Ruston in the nursery and had a talk with that lady, which was destined to produce seismic upheavals. "I've decided to make a little change in our arrangements, Mrs. Ruston," she said. "But I don't think it's one that will disturb you very much. I'm going to let Doris go I'll get her another place, of course and do her work myself." Mrs.
"You are safe for to-day," Ellen assured him, and he sat down. He was told the tale of the morning, the subject introduced by his wife, and amplified by their guest. He expressed his interest. "You have a good courage, Miss Ruston," said he. "And we'll agree to stand by you.
He could understand her being caught by the forsaken though powerful charm of that. Doubtless it would furnish backgrounds for her outdoor photography, which would put to blush any painted screens such as the village photographers were accustomed to use. He returned to give Miss Ruston his sanction of her project, and to receive her half-mocking, wholly grateful acknowledgment. "And I hope, Dr.
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