Beadle's Dime Novels No. 131 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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THK BEST NURSE. 29 once every half hour, sir, and see that the fire don’t go out, I'll be back by supper-time with the doctor.” “T don’t like to ask you, my child. Is there no one I can hire, by paying him enough ?” “Oh, don’t you fret about me! [Td rather be out-dvors than in, any time. I'll put on my boots, and be off.” | She went into the little back room and put on her stout shoes, with a blanket shawl, and a hood a little better than the one which had blown away, and shdwing her glowing fuece a moment in the door, with the injunction on the stran- ger not to forget to be regular about the milk punch, was away. By night-time, as she promised, she had a physician there, who had been so obliging, at sight of her pretty face, as to bring her back in his buggy. He pronounced the patient's state to be not altogether free from danger; his constitution, habituated to a warm climate, had been seyerely shocked by the exposure he had undergone ; but, good nursing, doubtless, would bring him out all right in ten or fifleen days, Mr. Wetmore wanted to send a nurse down from the city ; but the physician, noting the tidy and exact ways of the maiden, and te zeal and discretion she had thus far displayed, said it was better for Tangee to have the charge, under his direction, than for the house to receive another inmate, not half so quict, and no wiser. “ But it will be too much for her.” The girl laughed and shook her head. * “She has plenty of endurance,” said the doctor; “I can see that. And I guess Joe will be a right hand to her, when this out-door excitement has worn off a little. I will come over once a day; and if, at any time, I think you needed, I will dispatch a messenger.” Thus it was arranged. The merchant kept watch that night, but the nextday, business being pressing, and matters nlongshore being all in-the hands of the proper agent, he re- turned to the city, still a “good deal anxious about his: friend’s son, and perplexed about his own affairs. - That evening, when he retntered his luxurious home, and was met by his daughter, lovely in a blue silk dress and lace ruffles, those wild scenes on the Jersey coast appeared to him more like a singular dream than a late reality. conmicloctalks.comn