grave kindness and sad.html">sad interest, then softly relinquished it.
It was all over with poor Elsie. They walked almost in silence the
house, and returned with sad forebodings. Elsie went at once to her
Sophy began to be alarmed about her, went to her apartment, and,
on her bed, her brows strongly contracted, her eyes dull, her whole
been doing herself a harm by some deadly means or other. But Elsie,
I am not dying. You may send for the doctor.html">Doctor; perhaps he can take the
the pain, that I know of; if he can stop it, let him."
So they sent for the old Doctor. It was not long before the solid
under the wheels, gave notice that the physician.html">physician was driving up the
came into the sick-room with a quiet, cheerful look, as if he had a
way a patient.html">patient snatches his first look at his doctor's face, to see
unconditionally pardoned, has really something terrible about it. It
anything and everything in a patient's aspect. The physician whose
enough to examine people for a life-insurance office, but does not
in dread suspense, while he stayed talking about the case,--the
some alarming symptom or formidable operation which he himself is by-
He came to her bedside in such a natural, quiet way, that it seemed
pleasant word. Yet he was very uneasy about Elsie until he had seen
came prepared for the worst.
"Sick, my child?" he said, in a very soft, low voice.
Elsie nodded, without speaking.
The Doctor took her hand,--whether with professional views, or only
minutes, looking at her all the time with a kind of fatherly
color, her expression, all that teaches the practised eye so much
.
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