[Stella Fregelius by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookStella Fregelius CHAPTER XXIV 4/24
I will speak to the doctor.
He must give you a tonic, or something for your liver.
Really, to see you and that old mummy Mr.Fregelius staring at each other while he murmured away about the delights of the world to come, and how happy we ought to be at the thought of getting there, made me quite uncomfortable." "Why? Why, dear ?" asked Morris, vacantly. "Why? Because the old man with his pale face and big eyes looked more like an astral body than a healthy human being; if I met him in his surplice at night, I should think he was a ghost, and upon my word, you are catching the same expression.
That comes of your being so much together.
Do be a little more human and healthy.
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