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ushing into his mother's room next mornin

she'll be, savin' the mercy o' God. It's

she die,

s, not the likes of

o for her, mother, won't yo

. Thim that sint her to us will sind us the manes to kape her," said the Irish woman confidently; and lea

o the office. More by token, it's him as u'd tell us what we'd ought to be doin' wid the darlint, if

d I'd give all ever I had for a little sister to be my own, and love me, and go walking with me, and be took care by me; and, now one is sent, if it's the good folks or if it's the good God sent

to shtop at home, an' niver ax fur coompany savin' yer poor o

nothing to nobody but she's our own;

it's yer heart

and it's I always knowed, I mean knew it. And w

n we're well; but it's too poor intirely we are to be sick.

clean pillow: but he knew that what his mother said was true; and,

's hair, or moisten her glowing lips and burning forehead, trying at intervals to induce her to speak, if even but one word, in answer to her tender inquiries; but al

han usual, came bounding up the stairs, two at a time

sister now, mother?

t see the burning face, dull, half-closed eyes, and blackening lips of the sick child, and touch the little hands fe

is heart when he first took her to his arms; and then, shutting his lips close together, and swallowing hard to keep down the gre

sther, it's no more he could care for her. Sure an' if the Lord spares her to us, it's Ted

into the room before him, the boy threw his arms around his

an' it's not a cint he'll be afther axin' u

courtesied to the you

e room, sayin

your little girl by request of Teddy here, who said you wo

ed again, but with ra

as sh

ees, docther. I thought he'd more sinse than to be axin' y

took off his hat and coat; "for I have very little to do except to attend patients who

y's the place fur poor folks quite an'

ailors do not practise gratuitously; so we poor doctors, lawyers, and parsons have to play

to the poor linds to the Lord:' so, in the ind, it's yees that'll come in wid

out of his merry brown eyes, but only a

it there,

e Dr. Wentworth felt his patient's pulse, looked at her tongue

doubt," said he to hi

nis

illness, ma'am? Has she been exposed to any sudd

ut catching Teddy's imploring look, and the gesture with which he seemed to beg h

she took last night but

efore last? How was it

ent to prevent her from telling the whole truth. The doctor did not fail to notice the hesitation and embarrassment of the woman's manner, but remembering what Teddy had told him of his mother's poverty, and her o

well as you loved little lost 'Toinette, how much suffering

itation; and pretty soon went away, promising to come again next day, and taking Teddy with

zed in his little closet close beside his mother's door, poor Teddy's heart ached to hear the wild tones of entreaty, of terror, or of

herwoman sat in the clothes she had worn at bed-time, patiently fanni

hin' shall harm ye now, darlint! Asy, now

d Teddy in his mother's ear; and, with a nod, the weary woman