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Out of her sphere - University Library

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MR. THORNTON SPEAKS AT LAST. 21^<br />

getting on well. But you have had such a<br />

capital nurse. I dare^not take half the<br />

credit <strong>of</strong> your recovery to myself. Even<br />

Mrs. Thornton, if she had been <strong>her</strong>e to do<br />

it, could not have attended to you more<br />

carefully than <strong>her</strong> deputy <strong>her</strong>e has done.''<br />

Mr. Thornton looked fixedly at him.<br />

What did he mean by speaking thus <strong>of</strong> his<br />

wife ? Was it to try and prepare him—as<br />

was the fashion, he supposed, when b9,d<br />

news had to be communicated to invalids<br />

—<br />

to hear <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> death ? Was he supposed<br />

to know nothing <strong>of</strong> that as yet ? When<br />

told, what would they look to him to do ?<br />

How did ot<strong>her</strong> men bear such tidings ? Oh t<br />

those happy ot<strong>her</strong> men, to whom a wife s<br />

death was the heaviest grief that they<br />

could think <strong>of</strong> as connected with <strong>her</strong> I<br />

Those happy ot<strong>her</strong> men to whom death<br />

seemed so great a grief, because they had<br />

never known one infinitely greater ! He<br />

would not try and imitate such as these

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