Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 130: what you’re looking at

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MARRIAGE AND DEATH. 121 Arthur’s feelings at this news can be better imagined than expressed. ‘The suggestion that his beloved wife might be taken from him filled him with absolute terror, ‘*You mean she is in danger, doctor?’’ he asked. ‘‘T do mean just that,’’ answered the doctor, grimly. ‘She is worn outin mind and body, absolutely, and she never was any too robust to begin with. Get her away as ' quickly as possible, if you wish to save her life.”’ So saying, he took his departure, ‘‘Gertrude, Doctor Lambert and I have been having a little chat about you, and we agreed that a trip on the other side of the water would certainly do you no harm and perhaps might cheer you up a little. SoI bought steamer tickets this morning for the Gascogne, May six- teenth. How does the idea please you?’’ said Arthur to his wife, shortly afterward. Gertrude lifted her eyes listlessly to his face. She was lying on the sofa in her dressing-room, with a scarcely touched breakfast beside her. She was pitiably thin, and her complexion, against the somber hue of her gown, was like wax. ‘Tt is all the same to me, dear,’’ she answered, trying to smile. ‘‘T thought we would go for a year at least,’’ pursued Ar- thur. ‘‘Spend the summer at the different European water- ing-places, and then take in Constantinople, Athens, and the Nile, and when the weather gets cold, return to Nice for the season.”’ As she made no reply to this tempting programme, he continued ° “Then, as Doctor Lambert thinks you ought to have a (COMMING LOCO KS, (EC) im