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and as I sat opposite to her at work察 I felt the table tremble。
Looking up I saw my little maid shivering from head to foot。
^Charley察院said I ^are you so cold拭院
^I think I am察miss察院she replied。 ^I don¨t know what it is。 I can¨t
hold myself still。 I felt so yesterday察at about this same time察miss。
Don¨t be uneasy察I think I¨m ill。 ̄
I heard Ada¨s voice outside察 and I hurried to the door of
communication between my room and our pretty sitting´room察
and locked it。 Just in time察for she tapped at it while my hand was
yet upon the key。
Ada called to me to let her in察but I said察 Not now察my dearest。
Go away。 There¨s nothing the matter察 I will come to you
presently。 ̄ Ah it was a long察long time察before my darling girl and
I were companions again。
Charley fell ill。 In twelve hours she was very ill。 I moved her to
my room察and laid her in my bed察and sat down quietly to nurse
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her。 I told my Guardian all about it察and why I felt it was necessary
that I should seclude myself察 and my reason for not seeing my
darling above all。 At first she came very often to the door察 and
called to me察and even reproached me with sobs and tears察but I
wrote her a long letter察 saying that she made me anxious and
unhappy察 and imploring her察 as she loved me察 and wished my
mind to be at peace察to come no nearer than the garden。 After that察
she came beneath the window察even oftener than she had come to
the door察and察if I had learnt to love her dear sweet voice before
when we were hardly ever apart察 how did I learn to love it then察
when I stood behind the window´curtain listening and replying察
but not so much as looking out How did I learn to love it
afterwards察when the harder time came
They put a bed for me in our sitting´room察and by keeping the
door wide open察 I turned the two rooms into one察 now that Ada
had vacated that part of the house察 and kept them always fresh
and airy。 There was not a servant察in or about the house察but was
so good that they would all most gladly have come to me at any
hour of the day or night察 without the least fear or unwillingness察
but I thought it best to choose one worthy woman who was never
to see Ada察 and whom I could trust to come and go with all
precaution。 Through her means察I got out to take the air with my
Guardian察when there was no fear of meeting Ada察and wanted for
nothing in the way of attendance察 any more than in any other
respect。
And thus poor Charley sickened and grew worse察and fell into
heavy danger of death察and lay severely ill for many a long round
of day and night。 So patient she was察 so uncomplaining察 and
inspired by such a gentle fortitude察 that very often as I sat by
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Charley察holding her head in my arms!repose would come to her察
so察 when it would come to her in no other attitude!I silently
prayed to our Father in heaven that I might not forget the lesson
which this little sister taught me。
I was very sorrowful to think that Charley¨s pretty looks would
change and be disfigured察even if she recovered!she was such a
child with her dimpled face!but that thought was察for the greater
part察lost in her greater peril。 When she was at the worst察and her
mind rambled again to the cares of her father¨s sick bed察and the
little children察she still knew me so far as that she would be quiet
in my arms when she could lie quiet nowhere else察and murmur
out the wanderings of her mind less restlessly。 At those times I
used to think how should I ever tell the two remaining babies that
the baby who had learned of her faithful heart to be a mother to
them in their need察was dead
There were other times when Charley knew me well察and talked
to me此 telling me that she sent her love to Tom and Emma察 and
that she was sure Tom would grow up to be a good man。 At those
times Charley would speak to me of what she had read to her
father as well as she could察 to comfort him察 of that young man
carried out to be buried察who was the only son of his mother and
she was a widow察of the ruler¨s daughter raised up by the gracious
hand upon her bed of death。 And Charley told me that when her
father died察she had kneeled down and prayed in her first sorrow
that he likewise might be raised up察 and given back to his poor
children察 and that if she should never get better察 and should die
too察 she thought it likely that it might come into Tom¨s mind to
offer the same prayer for her。 Then would I show Tom how those
people of old days had been brought back to life on earth察only that
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we might know our hope to be restored in Heaven
But of all the various times there were in Charley¨s illness察
there was not one when she lost the gentle qualities I have spoken
of。 And there were many察many察when I thought in the night of the
last high belief in the watching Angel察and the last higher trust in
God察on the part of her poor despised father。
And Charley did not die。 She flutteringly and slowly turned the
dangerous point察 after long lingering there察 and then began to
mend。 The hope that never had been given察 from the first察 of
Charley being in outward appearance Charley any more察 soon
began to be encouraged察and even that prospered察and I saw her
growing into her old childish likeness again。
It was a great morning察 when I could tell Ada all this as she
stood out in the garden察and it was a great evening when Charley
and I at last took tea together in the next room。 But察on that same
evening察I felt that I was stricken cold。
Happily for both of us察it was not until Charley was safe in bed
again and placidly asleep察 that I began to think the contagion of
her illness was upon me。 I had been able easily to hide what I had
felt at tea´time察but I was past that already now察and I knew that I
was rapidly following in Charley¨s steps。
I was well enough察however察to be up early in the morning察and
to return my darling¨s cheerful blessing from the garden察 and to
talk with her as long as usual。 But I was not free from an
impression that I had been walking about the two rooms in the
night察 a little beside myself察 though knowing where I was察 and I
felt confused at times!with a curious sense of fulness察as if I were
becoming too large altogether。
In the evening I was so much worse that I resolved to prepare
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