The Price He Paid — page 145: what you’re looking at

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136 DR. BRUNNOW, JR., TO BE CONVERTED. thanks tothe zeal with which she was tended in two distinct ways. Her doctor’s treatment met with a success on which he himself had hardly dared to count. A most decided change for the bet- ter had taken placein her condition. There was good reason now to hope for her complete restora- tion to health, and to-day the invalid had been able to enjoy the warm sunshine, sitting for half an hour in the little garden which surrounded the cot-. tage. In this small inclosure Dr. Brunnow and Fraulein Moser were pacing, very amicably as it appeared. A certain intimacy had sprung up between the two during the few weeks of their acquaintance, the unreserve and freedom’ from constraint which marked their. intercourse being mainly based on the conviction entertained by both that neither cared in the least for the other. Agnes, indeed, cherished a serious intention of rescuing the young surgeon from the slough of worldliness and unbelief in which he was plunged and the more unsuccessful her efforts to that end appeared, the more persis- tently did she renew them. That there might be peril for herself in this work of redemption, never occurred to her. As regarded himself, he was certainly not in love; at least, the indignation with which he had protested against such a supposition was perfectly real and unfeigned. His marriage programme, as is known, contained many practical clauses, but no allusion to the .unpractical sentimentality of love. As Agnes Moser answered to this programme neither morally nor physically, there could, of course, be no question of any inclination toward her on his part. The young doctor had, certainly, signal good luck with the cases under his treatment, for Agnes, too, had revived wonderfully in the course of the last few. weeks, an improvement evidently to be attri- buted to the conscientious manner in which she fol- lowed his medical advice. A faint tinge of pink colored the cheeks that were so pale formerly, her eye was brighter, her carriage more erect, and she Ce(ay an iicel oevoy <S (E(0)