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her round. Keep her from this damn
autumn air, and at the end of the week
we shall have Miss Grand another per-
SON."
And at the end of the week Miss
Grand, under the influence Of close air
and %quinine, had not improved; and
she told Miss Lynch decisively that
she declined seeing Mr.. Huntley, or
taking any more OF his medicines.
"Let the windows stand open. auntie,
and let me be quiet and u~ndisturbed
as I was before. You need be under
no fear for me. I shouldn't feel as l
do now if I was going to die. Give
me- time and let me alone, and / shall
recover. It's not my body that is jH!'
In great dudgeon Mr.. Huntley took
his leave, and in fear and trembling
Door Miss Lynch found herself in the
awful position Of nursing a patient
with intermittent fever who would
take no medicine.
AS time wore on, however, and
though the autumn days grew damper,
and Jane more and more exposed her
self to their influence, the fever by
slow degrees gradually went from her.
till one night she slept over the hour
Mt which it had been used, every tWen-
ty-four hours, to seize her; and then
had only two slight attacks in the
course of n whole week; and then, as
far as this particular symptom went,
was well.
But she is weak and wasted to the
last degree" said Miss Lynch to the
vicar; for MI. Huntley passed her now
with only a dignified bow in the street,
and she was forced to look to ghostly
rather than to scientific knowledge for
advice about Jane. And she takes no
interest in anything, and seems hardly
to have energy enough to follow me
when I read to ier. Dear, dear, Mr..
Follett! how is she to be strengthened,
while she remains in the state she is"
Not by reading aloud" said the
vicar, much to the overthrow Of Miss
Lynch, who had at that moment not
been abiding to the restoration Of the
bodily woman; listening to reading is
an irritation to the temper, and an in
tolerable strain on the whole nervous
system of 4 weak person. Try to get
Jane to use her needle, if she will, and
let her have all the air you can, and
cook her nourishing food, and don't
give her any advice as to what it's her
duty to do or not to do. Above all,
Miss Lynch, if you would not drive
her back to her fever again, don't
forcibly put the contents of any book
whatever into the poor child's ears.
When Jane wants to read again, she
will read"
But if you would come yourself, MI.
Follett, and offer her a little spiritual
support? If you would only bring her
TO see the absolute necessity Of making
an effort?"
when Jane wants me to see her I
will come, not a day sooner" was the
wears answer. I'm her present state
my consultations, and Huntley's tOnics,
and your readings, my dear Miss
Lynch, will all be about the same SER
vice to her. Nature will work fol- the
poor child in time, and. we shall not
forward her efforts by any interference
of ours"
AS nothing from the lips Of a bene-
feed clergyman could sound like her
terodoxy in Miss Lynch's ears, she
mutely bowed before the wears skepti-
cisms, and Jane was spared being put
through any more cures, bodily or
mental.
Mr.. Follett had judged rightly that
she would not wish to see him. She
shrunk morbidly from the thought Of
seeing any strange face, from hearing
any voice but Miss Lynch's; and very
little even of that was sufficient to jar
/ every nerve in her body with exquisite
pain. I
The moral part of her nature was
strong, but the mental n was not ut
all above mediocrity; and she had no
intellectual pleasure or pursuit of any
kind whatever to fall back upon now
and fill up the vacuity of the dull, drag
ging day. She could not return to the
simple girlish joys that had filled her
heart till she knew Clifford; and bereft
of the prospect of happiness in mar
rage, all life seemed to her dull, hope
less, stagnant.
She thought scarcely at all of the
shame of her own birth during these
first weeks; and when she did think of
if, it was but as the cause of her
greater grief-the grief that swallowed
up all others-her severance from Mo-
hun.
Ito be C%ontinued.)