He is indomitable; only, at times, his heart of steel will soften, and then he has fits of deep dejection and depression, which I mourn to see; for his manly virtues, and his likeness to one I loved deeply in my youth, have made him dear to me." During this Grace turned her head away, and, ere the doctor ended, her tears were flowing freely; for to her, being a woman, this portrait of a male struggle with sorrow was far more touching than any description of feminine and unresisted grief could be: and, when the doctor said he loved his patient, she stole her little hand into his in a way to melt Old Nick, if he is a male.

Ladies, forgive the unchivalrous doubt.
"Doctor," said she, affecting all of a sudden a little air of small sprightliness, very small, "now, do--you--think--it would do your patient--the least good in the world--if you were to take him this ?" She handed him her work, and then she blushed divinely.
"Why, it is a figure of Hope." "Yes." "I think it might do him a great deal of good." "You could say I painted it for him." "So I will.

That will do him no harm neither.

Shall I say I found you crying over it ?" "Oh, no! no! That would make him cry too, perhaps." "Ah, I forgot that.

Grace, you are an angel." "Ah, no.