She's very handy, however, about a sick bed, and I might contrive, undher some excuse or other, to get her to take my place for a day or so.

But here's your father.

We will talk about it again." She then returned to the sick room, and Harry met Mr.Lindsay on the stairs going up to inquire after Charles.
"Don't go up, sir," said he; "the poor fellow, thank God, is asleep, and the less noise about him the better." Both then returned to the parlor.
About eleven o'clock the next night Sarah Sullivan was sitting by the bedside of her mistress, who was then, fortunately for herself, enjoying, what was very rare with her, an undisturbed sleep after the terror and agitation of the day, when a low, but earnest and sorrowful wailing was heard, immediately, she thought, under the window.

It rose and fell alternately, and at the close of every division of the cry it pronounced the name of Alice Goodwin in tones of the most pathetic lamentation and woe.

The natural heat and warmth seemed to depart out of the poor girl's body; she felt like an icicle, and the cold perspiration ran in torrents from her face.
"My darling misthress," thought she, "it's all over with you at last.
There is the sign--the Banshee--and it is well for yourself that you don't hear it, because it would be the death of you at once.