It has been all along the very best care he could have had.

It did more for him than all the rest, it--" "You don't mean that," she interrupted, with a flush and a bosom that leaped under her pretty gown.

"You don't mean that I was of more use than the nurse--than the future Mrs.Jesse Bulrush ?" "I mean just that," he answered.

"Nearly every sick person, every sick man, I should say, has his mascot, his ministering angel, as it were.
It's a kind of obsession, and it often means life or death, whether the mascot can stand the strain of the situation.

I knew an old man--down by Dingley's Flat it was, and he wanted a boy--his grand-nephew-beside him always.