I will go and
have another search for the book you wanted;" and with that she
turned, and gave a little start, for there stood the doctor!
"Oh, Doctor Jermyn!" she exclaimed, "I did not know you were
there!" and held out her hand. "Our patient is going on wonderfully
now. You will let me see you before you leave the castle?"
Therewith she left the room, and hastening to her own, saw in the
mirror the red of a lie, said to herself, "What will Cosmo think?"
and burst into tears--the first she had shed since the day she
found him.
The doctor was not taken in, but Cosmo was troubled and puzzled. In
Jermyn's talk, however, and his own simplicity, he soon forgot the
strangeness of this her behaviour.
CHAPTER XXXI.
COSMO AND THE DOCTOR.
To the eyes of Jermyn, Cosmo appeared, mainly from his simplicity,
younger than he was, while the doctor's manners, and his knowledge
of the world, made Cosmo regard him as a much greater man than, in
any sense or direction, he really was. His kindness having gained
the youth's heart, he was ready to see in him everything that love
would see in the loved.
"You are very good to me, Doctor Jermyn," he said, one day,"--so
good, that I am the more sorry though the less unwilling--"--The
doctor could not keep his hold of the thread of Cosmo's speach, yet
did not interrupt him--"to tell you what is now weighing on my
mind: I do not know how or when I shall be able to hand you your
fees.
Pages:
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374