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Updated: June 13, 2025
"It can't be like this long; the change will come in a few hours, and then I hope our Ned will be better." But Louise shook her head. "What's the use of saying that, Dr. Brownlee?" she said, in a low, strained voice. "You don't mean it, I know; and I'm not a baby, to be comforted with just words. Oh, doctor, if I could only cry!
"Yes, the plans are all made, and we're only waiting for you to be able to go. We're going to be gone two weeks, and" Allie paused, before imparting her final bit of good news "papa has asked Dr. Brownlee to go too." "How jolly!" Charlie exclaimed rapturously. "Isn't it?
"Don't tell the others, for I oughtn't to have said anything about it; but I couldn't hold in any longer." For an hour more, they sat there; then Grant's voice broke the hush, as he put his head in at the open window of the parlor, where his sister and Dr. Brownlee were sitting in the moonlight.
The girl looked at him haughtily; then her face softened, as she thought of the mortification that she was inflicting upon the old man before her, and she answered gently, "It is Dr. Brownlee." Once more the Reverend Gabriel hesitated.
Brownlee had so lately quitted. "I've been in San Francisco, the last two or three years; but I came up here to see about" He hesitated for an instant; then he went on, with a little laugh. "Well, the fact is, I came up here to open an office. I'm a doctor, you know, and I heard that you hadn't a very good one here, and that there was a possible opening for another man." "Indeed?"
She has a letter from Senator Brownlee or I wouldn't have disturbed you. She looks as if she could make trouble, if she wanted to." "Tell her I'm sorry, but that I have no ideas about marriage and that Jonas is as near a wife as I care to get. He henpecks me enough, don't you, Jonas, old man! Abbott, just remember, once for all, I won't see the women." "Very well," replied Abbott.
"Sometimes I look at him and wonder if a neighbour can be so kind to one, what a real father would be like. I envy a girl with a father unspeakably." "You have cause," said Ellen Brownlee. "A father is the very dearest person in the whole round world, except a mother, who is just a dear."
Howard and Marjorie, too, were ready to add their share of music, for they had toiled away in secret till they had mastered one or two simple duets, which they invariably sang whenever an opportunity offered. In the mean time, a warm friendship had developed between Mr. Everett and Dr. Brownlee.
Brownlee called to him, "Hello, Sinton! How do you like the fate of your lunch box?" Then he began to laugh "I always hate to see a man laughing alone," said Sinton. "It looks so selfish! Tell me the fun, and let me help you." Mr. Brownlee wiped his eyes. "I supposed you knew, but I see she hasn't told."
"Billy Evans' wife promised to see to it that Billy painted the livery barn and there's a delegation of ladies appointed to wait on Mert Hagley and see if we can't get him to mend his sheds. They're so lopsided and rickety that Mrs. Brownlee says they're an eyesore and a menace to public safety.
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