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disapproval It was remarkable that Clara's advocacy of Mabel's

cause, at these times, so frequently failed to alter his purpose of

censure or to ate it, since, in all other respects, her

influence over him was more firmly established each day and hour

Old Phillis, Mabel's nurse and the doctress of the

plantation--albeit a less zealous devotee than her es left within her reach, ostensibly

for the use of her patient should he revive sufficiently to s

a few drops--was yet too drowsy fro, and the obesity of age, to

il over one she, in coravated specienus, "poor white folks" There was next

to nothing for her to do when the fire had been replenished, the

bottles of hot water renewed at the feet and heart, and fresh

hts wound about the aler She did contrive to keep Soer, by a , which,

by Dr Ritchie's directions, had been reht be more conveniently applied, and the heated blankets the

sooner infuse a vital glow through the storm-beaten fraers--ragged

coat, vest, and pantaloons--rued in the same contemptuous

fashion every pocket, and kicked over the worn, soaked boots with

the toe of her leather brogan, sniffing her disappointment at the

worthlessness of the habiliments and the result of her search