The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-12

was rs much perplexel as the Blencowss
and Infinitely moro anxious Her master
was not like the same man. Until lately
he. though working ike galley slave.
had always been happy and cheerful,
with word OF praise f1r any litto dish
she s8t before him, and of kindness for
herself whenever she 'came across him.
Now he was moody and silent. ate with
out seeming TO care whether bis food
were good CT bad. and passed her without
so much as knowing that she was thore.
His bed. too. showed the perturbation of
his mind. she had "but TO look at it To
see how very little sleeping bad been done
in 10. A change must come soon or he
would fret himself away, so the day
after Candlemas sermon she waylaid him
as be was going out my dear boy"
she said piteouslg. "sir. meap-my heart
aches when l see you; you are taking on
that badly about something that you
neither eat nor sleep.
II am all right" no said, trying to
got ont OF the house, but the passage was
narrow and she was stout, and be could
not reach the door unless she turned side
ways and crushed herself up against the
wall. which she did not seem To intonu
TO do.
"You must let me speak, sir. You are
fairly throwing away your bealth TO say
nothing OF your comfort, for comforts a
thing you never take into account You
going You don't sloep and you are
walking about upon those poor feet OF
yours with ON empty stomach from early
morning till late ct night.
To her delight, her words made him
smile and return to the speech of other
days. " Nurse, dear, I'm all right one
or two things are rather worrying me,
that's all. -
"lf | could be certain that he was wor-
ried about one or two things. | wouldn't
mind so much. sac thought but l fear
it's only one"
"Wiii you promise TO he in by half
past severn" she saiu, for she wanted to
make "a certain pudding that he liked.
Let me go now, and j Will. ="
'Well. bless him for saint whatever
he does TO vex mel" she thought lie
certainly mas ways that would have worn
out the patience OF job himself, and that
in the second or third chapter. Her
pudding might have boon favored with
bitterness, for while making it her mind
was occupied with his misdeeds. How
often she had made some dish to tempt
his appetite, and even before tasting it
no had run of with the greater part 10
some invalid who would probably never
eat bite OF it; and when he had re-
turned. his own portion was that sad
that it was not worth eating Its
cheating your mouth, sir, TO put such
stuff as that into it. . she had said. but
nOLHlnR was 10 Le RCb lTOtu MIN uut,
1t $ all right" The grapes and wines
sent for him when he looked i'll found
their way 10 the sick, too. She had even
caught him carrying his blankets and
pillows down stairs 60 give 10 someone at
the door. She tried TO check uhes, rom
inisconces, but In vain. There was that
still worse thing that had been done ID
months ago-it had all but cost him his
life Proctor. the saorstan, was Ill with
typhus fever of so malignant nature
that no nurse would stay with him.
Paid PEOPLE might he afraid, but her dear
master had gone tothe mans bedside as
soon as he had heard that be was thus
abandunei, and had nursed him night
and day siDgle-handed. leaving his own
house TO priest who came to do his
duties, and his poor old nurse tn the
misery of having TO provide every con mfolt
for stranger, while her master had not
even bed Tn lie down on or bite that
was fit tn eat. He had nurscd that man
Proctor for three weeks "a tendcrly as any
woman could have done. and had just
strength left to arrange Cor having him
sent TO the sea ana write IA check TO pay
for It, before he creDt into led TO battle
with the fever himself. Proctor was
"well done to- while awav, and came
back strong and well: but her poor mas
ter had a hard fight for his life, and
fight with poverty afterward. for all his
money had gone to bring the secristan
round. You ought TO have strong beef
tea and good port wine, she had said
when she saw her masters hollow nheeks
aud Transparent hands "and the butcher
SAYS that no more meat shall come here
until we have paid up what's owing al
ready"
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