So it was put in charge of a very good local man with a large experience in such domestic matters.
How am I to tell of it?
Everything went wrong; as for the details, let them be.

Ultimately Bickley did operate, and if surpassing skill could have saved her, it would have been done.

But the other man had misjudged the conditions; it was too late, nothing could help either mother or child, a little girl who died shortly after she was born but not before she had been christened, also by the name of Natalie.
I was called in to say farewell to my wife and found her radiant, triumphant even in her weakness.
"I know now," she whispered in a faint voice.

"I understood as the chloroform passed away, but I cannot tell you.

Everything is quite well, my darling.