THE GRANDISSIMES

... " So you concluded not to die, eh ? Yes, I'm the doctor Doctor Keene. A young lady ? What young lady ? No, sir, there has been no young lady here. You're mistaken. Vagary of your fever. There has been no one here but this black girl and me. No, my dear fellow, your father and mother can't see you yet ; you don't want them to catch the fever, do you ? Good-bye.
Do as your nurse tells you, and next week you may raise your head and shoulders a little ; but if you don't mind her you'll have a back-set, and the devil himself wouldn't engage to cure you."
The patient had been sitting up a little at a time for several days, when at length the doctor came to pay a final call, " as a matter of form : " but, after a few pleasantries, he drew his chair up gravely, and, in a tender tone need we say it ? He had come to tell
Joseph that his father, mother, sisters, all, were gone on a second a longer voyage, to shores where there could be no disappointments and no fevers, forever.
And, Frowenfeld," he said, at the end of their long and painful talk, if there is any blame attached to not letting you go with them, I think I can take part of it ; but if you ever want a ...

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