"You must now abide by his treatment, and content yourself with his advice, unless he chooses to summon further assistance." Georgy was fain to submit.

She gave a little plaintive sigh, and went back to her husband's room, where she sat and wept silently behind the bed-curtains.

There was a double watch kept in the sick-chamber now; for Nancy Woolper rarely left it, and rarely closed her eyes.

It was altogether a sad time in the dentist's house; and Tom Halliday apologised to his friend more than once for the trouble he had brought upon him.

If he had been familiar with the details of modern history, he would have quoted Charles Stuart, and begged pardon for being so long a-dying.
But anon there came a gleam of hope.