We called a doctor immediately, but he failed to restore him." "O, call another doctor!" said Rosa, imploringly; and Floracita almost shrieked, "Tell me where to _go_ for a doctor." "We have already summoned one on the way," said young Blumenthal, "but I will go to hasten him";--and, half blinded by his tears, he hurried into the street.
The doctor came in two minutes, and yet it seemed an age.

Meanwhile the wretched girls were chafing their father's cold hands, and holding sal-volatile to his nose, while Madame Guirlande and Tulipa were preparing hot water and hot cloths.

When the physician arrived, they watched his countenance anxiously, while he felt the pulse and laid his hand upon the heart.

After a while he shook his head and said, "Nothing can be done.

He is dead." Rosabella fell forward, fainting, on the body.