[Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookSketches New and Old PREFACE 116/184
Our child will never get well.
Be thankful if you can forgive yourself; I never can forgive myself." I said, without intent to hurt, but with heedless choice of words, that I could not see that we had been living such an abandoned life. "Mortimer! Do you want to bring the judgment upon Baby, too!" Then she began to cry, but suddenly exclaimed: "The doctor must have sent medicines!" I said: "Certainly.
They are here.
I was only waiting for you to give me a chance." "Well do give them to me! Don't you know that every moment is precious now? But what was the use in sending medicines, when he knows that the disease is incurable ?" I said that while there was life there was hope. "Hope! Mortimer, you know no more what you are talking about than the child unborn.
If you would--As I live, the directions say give one teaspoonful once an hour! Once an hour!--as if we had a whole year before us to save the child in! Mortimer, please hurry.
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