[Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookTwo Years Ago, Volume I CHAPTER XIV 30/63
"I may as well see that I have not killed him. No, he will do as well as ever--which is not saying much....
Now, sir! Go home quietly, and ask Mrs.Trebooze for a little rhubarb and salvolatile.
I'll call up in the course of to-morrow to see how you are." "I'll kill you, if I catch you!" "As a man, I am open of course to be killed by any fair means; but as a doctor, I am still bound to see after my patient's health." And Tom bowed civilly, and walked back up the path to find Grace, after washing face and hands in the brook. He found her up at Tolchard's farm, trembling and thankful. "I cannot do less than see Miss Harvey safe home." Grace hesitated. "Mrs.Tolchard, I am sure, will walk with us; it would be safer, in case you felt faint again." But Mrs.Tolchard would not come to save Grace's notions of propriety; so Tom passed Grace's arm through his own.
She offered to withdraw it. "No; you will require it.
You do not know yet how much you have gone through.
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