[The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Queen of Hearts CHAPTER VI 149/151
It has, however, been positively ascertained that the medical attendant of the family was sent for in a great hurry on the day when Mr.Yatman returned from the milliner's shop.
The neighboring chemist received, soon afterward, a prescription of a soothing nature to make up for Mrs.Yatman.The day after, Mr.Yatman purchased some smelling-salts at the shop, and afterward appeared at the circulating library to ask for a novel descriptive of high life that would amuse an invalid lady. It has been inferred from these circumstances that he has not thought it desirable to carry out his threat of separating from his wife, at least in the present (presumed) condition of that lady's sensitive nervous system. THE SEVENTH DAY. FINE enough for our guest to go out again.
Long, feathery lines of white cloud are waving upward in the sky, a sign of coming wind. There was a steamer telegraphed yesterday from the West Indies.
When the next vessel is announced from abroad, will it be George's ship? I don't know how my brothers feel to-day, but the sudden cessation of my own literary labors has left me still in bad spirits.
I tried to occupy my mind by reading, but my attention wandered.
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