My anxiety was great lest he should slip from the chair and tip into the fire.

I note this to mark the great change since that time.

Neighbours are not now expected to care for the sick and dying, but trained nurses are always sought, and most of them are noble heroines in their profession.
Once also I watched with a poor woman who was dying with cancer.

I tried it for two nights, but the remark of her sister, as I left utterly worn out, "Some folks seem to get all their good things in this life," deterred me from attempting it again.
Started a school a little later in the ell of our house for my friends among the Hanover children--forty-five scholars in all.

Kept it going successfully for two years.
I dislike to tell a story so incredible and so against myself as this.
One evening father said, "I am going to my room early tonight, Katie; do not forget to lock the back door." I sat reading until quite late, then retired.