As to intercourse with
him, Clarence and I might act as we saw fit.
'Only,' said my father, as Clarence was leaving home, 'I trust you
not to get yourself involved in this set.'
Clarence gave a queer smile, 'They would not take me as a gift,
papa.'
And as my father turned from the hall door, he laid his hand on his
wife's arm, and said, 'Who would have told us what that young fellow
would be to us.'
She sighed, and said, 'He is not twenty-three; he has plenty of
money, and is very fond of Griff.'
CHAPTER XXXIII--THE RIVER'S BANK
'And my friend rose up in the shadows,
And turned to me,
"Be of good cheer," I said faintly,
For He called thee.'
B. M.
Mr. Fordyce waited at Hillside till after Sunday, and then went to
Bath to hear the verdict of the physician. He returned as much
depressed as it was in his sanguine nature to be, for great delicacy
of the lungs had been detected; and to prevent the recent chill from
leaving permanent injury, Ellen must have a winter abroad, and warm
sea or mountain air at once. Whether the disease were
constitutional and would have come on at all events no one could
tell.
Consumption was much less understood half a century ago; codliver
oil was unknown; and stethoscopes were new inventions, only used by
the more advanced of the faculty. The only escape poor Parson Frank
had from accepting the doom was in disbelieving that a thing like a
trumpet could really reveal the condition of the chest.
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