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Osler's threats of life or death had been exaggerated to help her carry her point, she knew, and, also, she fully realized that her father understood this was so. He was not the man to be scared of any bogey like that. Besides, his parting words, so gentle, so kindly; she had grown to distrust him most in his gentler moods. All that day, assisted by Joe, she watched at the sickbed.
His only greeting was to point with the gold head of his long staff towards the peaked black hat, that never left his head, even beside the sickbed, and asked in a curt, hurried tone: "When will Meister Peter come home?" "In an hour," replied Maria. "Sit down, Doctor." "Another time. It will keep me too long to wait for your husband. After all, you can come with me even without his consent."
Her baby was born out in the medder, an' died the next day; an' she got up out of her sickbed at the Poorhouse, an' come totterin' up here, to ask if there was any use in her sayin', 'Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner! An' your mother took her in, an' laid her down on this very bed, an' she died here. An' your mother hil' her in her arms when she died. You ask her if she didn't!"
He closed his long thin lips an instant but, eager to be on, raised an outspanned hand to his spectacles and, with trembling thumb and ringfinger touching lightly the black rims, steadied them to a new focus. In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O'Molloy: Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sickbed.
He loved dearly to skate on thin ice, that was the trouble, especially where he fancied the water to be just within his depth. Unluckily the sea of life deepens rather fast. Malbone had known Hope from her childhood, as he had known her cousins, but their love dated from their meetings beside the sickbed of his mother, over whom he had watched with unstinted devotion for weary months.
"Thou shouldst know more of such matters than I, my son, seeing that thou art in youth's ardent prime, whilst I wear the garb of a monk. Sure thou canst not have watched beside thy brother's sickbed all these long weeks without knowing somewhat of the trouble in his mind?" "I hear him moan and talk," answered Gaston; "but he knows not what he says, and I know not either.
Helpless and in agony he lay on his sickbed, his mind still busy with plans of how to take Quebec. "Doctor," he said, "I know you can't cure me but patch me up till I see this business through." Soon he was about again, and making plans for his last desperate attempt to take Quebec. Seeking to find a means of reaching the fortress he had himself examined all the north shores of the St. Lawrence.
He offers full pardon for the past, high favour for the future." "How, man my life? I trust, though, thou dost only mean my kingdom? It were impious! He is my father's brother they sat on the knees of the same father lay in the bosom of the same mother. Out on thee, man, what follies they make thy sickbed believe!" "Believe, indeed!" said Ramorny. "It is new to me to be termed credulous.
Such a person is acting like the spendthrift whose capital in the bank allows him to expend ten dollars a day, but who, instead, draws several times the amount of his legitimate daily interest. There can be but one outcome to this: in due time the cashier will inform him that his account is overdrawn. The same principles hold true with regard to stimulants given at the sickbed.
A few days later, a silent group was standing round the sickbed of the King of England, listening to the broken utterances which fell from the lips of that old and wellnigh worn-out warrior. Those who thus stood round him were his favourite knights and barons, not a few of whom were moved to tears as he spoke. "I have sinned, and I have had my punishment. My kingdom is gone, and my glory.
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