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Half an hour after her brother's visit, Mabel tapped at the door to

inquire how the patient was, and whether she could be of use in any

way She still wore her evening dress, and the fire of exciteone out in her eyes and coer," said the doctor, with the authority of an old

friend "It will not benefit your protege for you to have a

headache, pale cheeks, and heavy eyes to-morrohile it will

render others, whose claier, very miserable"

She thanked hiht," without a responsive gleahed doith sick horror The almost certainty of which he

spoke with professional coolness, was to her, who had never within

her recollection stood beside a death-bed, a thing too frightful to

be anticipated without dread, however its terrors ht be

alleviated by affection and wealth As the finale of their Christlect in those who

should have known better than to abandon the wanderer to the ravages

of hunger, cold, and intoxication--the idea was ghastly beyond

description

She was about to diverge froe leading to Mrs Sutton's roouarded key by her sister-in-law