The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-12-05

! i am so glad to find you,aona, he cxclaim-
ed i have lain awake three nights thinking
how | could move your cruel resolution To
| drive me from you
! Edith's rosy lips parted and she murmur.
ed: 'Nalerian might soothe you or bromide
o. potassium
Will ever do me much good unless you give
me little hope to live on and hug TO my
heart You might feel OF my pulse, though,
| If YOU think there IS anything the matter.
The thQdght Of you going around as doctor,
as you told me you should,-prescribing
| for other fellows, holding their hands, look
ing at tongues, is positively maddening.'
You are Just as bad a. mamma and the
rest of them said Edith, little dowacast
You all scold and lecture me. No one an
derstands my aims and motives, that want
to lead useful life, ana DO a little good in
| the world, If was born girl. am thwarth
cd and prosecuted by yoA all
| Don't say so! cried young Marshall, real
| " in despair at her rcpfoaChes Il would do
ANYTHING on earth--consent to almost any
! thing-tor your sake You might amputate
my arm in the interest of science, If you
cared to do it. You have already got my
heart, and i; don't matter much what becomes
of the rest of me Wouldn't you want some
| one 10 try your medicines on, to test them
and see how they are going TO work: |
would take EN-; by Joyc, would
| EditAs sense of the iudicrous was not
acute. She smiled family from the suspicion
that there was a joke turtivc. 1 told you be
fore, said she with a sigh, that | cannot
marry any one. Il is the dearest wish of my
heart to study II the medical schools, and
must wait Unit. am Of age; then can get
around papa / am sure mammals opposi
! ton will never yield, and a husband would
be Just as bad Men are tyrants,' she added
with divine expression Of innocence IN ncr
eyes They beg and implCrc on their knees
before marriage, BIZ, they command after
ward
Don't think me a Blue Beard said the
young lAau eagerly, feeling he had gained a
| little I'm not even az old iogy. Ifyou'N
consent to marry me, you shall DC free to
study and lead your own life. will go with
you as far as | can only; he added, hesitat-
ingly, I shouldn't want 5ou 10 practice
around generally, and go feeling Of other
men pulse You are too divine Il creature
/ for such uses 4 woman doctor should be
an old, matronly pcrson,-not lovely girl
who throws u fellow into fever every time
she enter, the room.
i don't Xix. compliments said EditA,
though blush mounted TO her check; and
then she added, in al en- JarraSSed tone quite
new to her. I have always meant to have a
little dispcnsary II my own house, where |
could prescribe for poor people free OF charge
and do a little good in my own way. There
| could keep my medical books and speci-
mems, and a skeleton Edlths eyes Sparkled
with animation,
You shall have a skeleton in every room,
said Charlie, eagerly; only, he a0ded, a lit.
tie ruetully, they are not exactly jolly to
have around AHd, Edith, do want you to
love NE Z little, just a little he added IN
pathetic tones. i know | am not deserving
of much, and should be grateful for the
! least Crumb you could give me-
In the ardor and passion of his plea he had
seized Edith's hand, and she was surprised
into slight futter Of the heart, which was
certainly novel symptom
II hear mamma coming said she starting
up and trying to pull her hand away, Please
let me go
NO SAID Charlie, mot until you give me a
rd,-just one word to live upon and he
pressed her fragile little fingers to his lips.
There, don't be foolish stammered Edith ;
don't worry and tease; wait little while;
be patient
4 will be The best patient you ever had,
whispered Charley, and he weut home, that
night, supremacy happy