Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-16
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applied to her. Her reply was charac-
V1Lr.A CANpANARE. N1cr.

IN pecun1ary scrape at Oxford L had
applied to her. Her reply was charac-
teristic:
VILLA CAAPANARE, NICE.
MY DEAR CHARLEs-If were to acoede to your
request for $50 / should be doing you great
wrong By having to get out OF your scrapes
yourself you viii learn to avoid them and acquire
self reliance. Thirty pounds my dear Charles, is
sum of money. Avoid debt, and you will be
spared what cannot but be painful to you. Read
the enclosed. Your affectionate aunt
JOHANNA
''The enclosed was some horrible
trash about man who came to London
with twopence and died worth a million
As to thirty pounds being o sum Of
money, what did she suppose l imagined
it to be-a sack of potatoes?
Well, the recollection Of this incident
failed to dispel my present misgivings,
and that night 1 wrote to Mary telling
her that | would see her father at once,
but that until had done so she was to
keep our engagement secret. And l
went to bed with despair at my heart.
1 tossed about all night and had but
short and fitful intervals of sleep In the
morning | was in high state of fever,
varied by frequent fits of shivering and
shooting pains all over me. sent tel
egram to my doctor and then went back
to bed.
For three months 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 girl! 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 l 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:
IF 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. It
ian in the family. Therefore, feeble
and near to death as | was, made UP
my mind that l would pull through.
/ There never was q kinder nurse than
wizened, uncouth Mrs. Crump Mrs.
Swatnan's nlummified 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 l 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 hard time of it. Those who
fall sick in chambers are apt to suffer
grievously. More than once during
those forty-eight hours I feared that the
parrot constitution would be worsted
after all.
However, they passed, and 1 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 l made the /
unpleasant discovery that, after settling
various liabilities incurred by my illness,
1 should be left with a. balance Of not
more Jnan ten or Twelve pounds
at Praed's, out Of which there
would be a heavy chemists bill
to pay. My dividends were not due
until December, and was debarred from
forecalIing them by the provision of the
will under which obtained them, and
which forbade me to assign, charge or
cucumber the property, under penalty
Of seeing it depart into the clutches of a
distant connection. Not without much
reluctance, therefore, resolved to write
to my Aunt ohanna and ask her to come
to my assistance. After l had done this
a feeling OF conditional resignation came
over me. had swallowed my pride,
and such dose, after all the other nos
trums l had been taking, ought surely
to bring about some sort Of improvement
in my unlucky state.
To RI COETTETruD