I vainly endeavoured to induce her to accept the services of a competent nurse; she would allow nobody to attend on her husband but herself.

Night and day this estimable woman was at his bedside.

In her brief intervals of repose, her brother watched the sick man in her place.

This brother was, I must say, very good company, in the intervals when we had time for a little talk.

He dabbled in chemistry, down in the horrid under-water vaults of the palace; and he wanted to show me some of his experiments.