But she reconciled me to it.

So old Maria departed and took up her ancient quarters in the nursery.
Penelope coughed twice in her sleep.
"Oh, why don't that doctor come! Mortimer, this room is too warm.

This room is certainly too warm.

Turn off the register-quick!" I shut it off, glancing at the thermometer at the same time, and wondering to myself if 70 was too warm for a sick child.
The coachman arrived from down-town now with the news that our physician was ill and confined to his bed.

Mrs.McWilliams turned a dead eye upon me, and said in a dead voice: "There is a Providence in it.