The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-09-28

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.sWhab Jolly girls the Macfarlanes
arew Edward remarked
She -loyelyp replied.
.sshes Who?'
ssWhy, all Of them" ventured.
And then, in fear that should betray
nyselE. / suddenly remembered an
appointment at the Lotus club and
went of on a long walk Involuntarily
found myself IN Inverness terrace, gaz-
ing up at the drawing room windows.
They were open, but there was no sign
of Mary. I trndged away down the
Bayswater road, ACROSS Addison road to
Kensington, and SO back to the Temple,
shut myself into my room, lit my lamp
and tried to read.
Suddenly grim shadow crossed my
mind. Mr.. Campbell Bruce what would
10 say to all this?
He was repnted to be wealthy, and
knew he was proud. What would he
think? Was it likely that he would give
his daughter to a man whose income
was but e250 a year and what be could
earn as guerrilla of the press? Was it
liLely2
It was not. No use blinking the fact.
It was improbable in the highest degree.
Expectation, even, / had none. The
only person who was at all likely to
leave me any money was my Aunt
Johanna; and she, good soul, was as
tough as grenadier and as long lived
as a parrot. Her personal appearance,
fowl. Out of clear three thousand a
year she spent about five hundred, SO
that her accumulation must, [ knew, be
large and her income increasing year by
year. But would she make me an allow
ance? That was the question. Or would
she--but no! knew the old lady too
we'll She was as tenacious of her money
as a dog Of a bone and as proud of it as
a cook of her copper. Once when was
in a pecuniary scrape at Oxford | had
applied to her. Her reply was charac-
teristic:
VILLA CA,sPANARE. NICE.
Ny DEAR CHAR1zs-If were 10 accede to your
request for $50 should be doing you a great
wrong. BY having to get out Of your scrapes
YOURSELF you will learn to avoid them and acquire
self reliance. Thirty pounds my dear Charles, is
a sum OF money. Avoid debt, and you viii be
spared what cannot but be painful to you. Read
the enclosed Your affectionate aunt,
JOHANNA
ssThe enclosed was some horrible
trash about man who came to London
with twopence and died worth million.
AS to thirty pounds being sum Of
money, what did she suppose I imagined
II IA f,e---ss sss,c1x IF f71tafopa2
Well, the recollection of this incident
failed to dispel my present misgivings,
and that night wrote to Mary telling
her that I would see her father at once,
but that until / had done SO she was to
keep our engagement secret. And
went to bed with despair at my heart
I tossed about all night and had but
short and ftful intervals of sleep. In the
morning was in high state of fever,
varied by frequent fits of shivering and
shooting pains all over me. l sent tel
egraln to my doctor and then went back
to bed.
For three months l was laid up with a
dangerous rheumatic fever. In the ear
ly stage had found it necessary to take
Edward Bold into my confidence, and he
had regularly conveyed tidings of me to
Mary, who, poor grill suffered grievous-
ly for my sake. Her messages gave me
heart and strength, but my prostration
was great and the paroxysms of pain
frequent. At last the muscles Of the
throat were affected, and could neither
eat, drink nor sleep. Laudanum was
administered in large and increasing
doses and brought me some temporary
relief but overheard my dear friend,
George Vivian, my doctor, say one day:
eff he is not better in forty eight hours
it is all over with him. =
My Aunt Johanna was not the sole
possessor Of the parrot constitution. II
ran in the family. Therefore, feeble
and near to death as / was, made up
my mind that | would pull through.
There never was kinder nurse than
wizened, uncouth Mrs Crulnp (Mrs.
Swatman's mum1nifed assistant before
mentioned) turned out to be. The hired
nurse was as callous and repugnant as
nine out of ten Of her class are, but Mrs.
Crump, who would tend me while the
professional took her daily exercise, was
ray of sunshine in the room. She was
always good humored and hopeful; she
smoothed my pillows, raised my head or
arranged the bed with the lightest of
hands. Often did I scream for her when
the hired nurse was causing me the most
acute pain by her rough handling.
Nurses are born, not made. But at the
best had a hard time of it. Those who
fall sick in chambers are apt to suffer
grievously. More than once during
those forty-eight hours feared that the
parrot constitution would be worsted.
after all.
However, they passed, and was not
dead yet. began to mend; slowly but
surely the improvement went on, and in
due time became SO far convalescent as
to be able, with assistance, to get from
one room to another. A new trouble
now doomed in my horizon. On looking
into the state of my finances made the
unpleasant discovery that, after settling
various liabilities incurred by my illness,
should be left with balance OF not
more than ten or twelve pounds
at Praed's, out Of which there
would be a heavy chemists bill
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