What can it mean, Doctor ?" The mother looked intently in my face, and paused for an answer, with her lips apart.

But I knew as little as she what it meant.

Ah! how often do anxious friends question us, and hearken eagerly for our replies, when the signs of disease are yet too indefinite for any clear diagnosis! "I can tell better after seeing your daughter," said I.And we went up to the sick girl's chamber; that north-west room, at the window of which I had first seen the fair stranger, as I stood wondering in storm and darkness.

I found her lying in apparent sleep, and breathing heavily.
Her face was flushed; and I noticed the peculiar odor that usually accompanies an eruptive fever.
"How do you feel now ?" I asked.
She had opened her eyes as I took her hand.

She did not answer, but looked at me in a half bewildered way.