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The heart keeps up wonderfully, but there is a little more oppression of the diaphragm." "Yes her breathing is harder. Last night she suffered horribly at times." "Oh she'll suffer," Wyant murmured. "Of course the hypodermics can be increased." "Just what did Dr. Garford say this morning?" "He is astonished at her strength." "But there's no hope? I don't know why I ask!" "Hope?"
"Go," he said curtly. Wyant, instead, moved a step nearer. "Just a minute, please. It's only fair to hear my side. Your wife says there was no hope; yet the day before she...gave the dose, Dr. Garford told her in my presence that Mrs. Amherst might live." Again Amherst's eyes addressed themselves slowly to Justine; and she forced her lips to articulate an answer. "Dr.
Some of the other symbols we have not yet been able to decipher." Wyant watched her curiously; she seemed to be reciting a lesson. "And the picture itself?" he said. "How do you explain that? Lux Mundi what a curious device to connect with such a subject! What can it mean?" Miss Lombard dropped her eyes: the answer was evidently not included in her lesson. "What, indeed?" the doctor interposed.
These at least were the reasons she gave herself for deciding not to leave; and if any less ostensible lurked beneath, they were not as yet visible even to her searching self-scrutiny. At first she was embarrassed by the obligation of meeting Dr. Wyant, on whom her definite refusal had produced an effect for which she could not hold herself blameless.
She felt Wyant's face change: his eyes settled on her in a threatening stare. Amherst looked at her also, and there was surprise in his glance. "I think I can answer for my father-in-law. He feels as strongly as I do how much we all owe to Dr. Wyant." He seldom spoke of Mr.
It was absurd to be angry with a young man who confided his secrets to the first stranger he met in the streets, and placed his hand on his heart whenever he mentioned the name of his betrothed. The easiest way out of the business was to take it as a joke. Wyant had played the wall to this new Pyramus and Thisbe, and was philosophic enough to laugh at the part he had unwittingly performed.
No photograph, no sketch now or afterward. Do you hear me?" "Yes, father," said the girl quietly. "The vandals," he muttered, "the desecrators of beauty; if I thought it would ever get into their hands I'd burn it first, by God!" He turned to Wyant, speaking more quietly. "I said you might come back I never retract what I say.
"HIS picture? Hers!" "Well, the house is his, at all events." "Unhappily since to her it is a dungeon!" "Why doesn't she leave it, then?" exclaimed Wyant impatiently. The Count clasped his hands. "Ah, how you say that with what force, with what virility! If you would but say it to HER in that tone you, her countryman!
The clouds had rolled upward, obscuring the sunshine and hanging like a funereal baldachin above the projecting cornices of Doctor Lombard's street, and Wyant walked for some distance in the shade of the beetling palace fronts before his eye fell on a doorway surmounted by a sallow marble hand. He stood for a moment staring up at the strange emblem.
The doctor had risen and was walking slowly toward the door. His daughter unlocked it, and Wyant followed them back in silence to the room in which they had left Mrs. Lombard. That lady was no longer there, and he could think of no excuse for lingering. He thanked the doctor, and turned to Miss Lombard, who stood in the middle of the room as though awaiting farther orders.
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