Bob Dean; Or, Our Other Boarder, baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...she is gradually slipping away from him. During those tedious days and nights he has never found himself alone with her in the watch, except at such times as the patient required all of their united attention. When his hand accidentally touched hers, and this has happened several times in their mutual offices of physician and nurse, she would quickly remove hers, but he looked in vain for that rare color to suffuse her cheeks and brow, as once it would have done. If he assayed sentiment, she met it with a practical common sense, which made his soft speeches sound ridiculous. Yet he could find no just cause to reproach her, for she was always polite, gentle, and kind. It made him half beside himself to see her meet Bob Dean with a cordiality she did not give to him. There was a friendliness in their intercourse which told of mutual trust, and the ease of a brother and sister. Bob's quiet humor could coax the dimples back to their old place in the pale cheeks, and many hours of quiet, sensible converse had they in the evenings and half nights that Bob gave to his friend's help. The lamp, burning low, would be left in Mrs. Lipscomb's room, and at short intervals Mary would slip softly in to watch the sleeper; but then she would return and sit in the front room and talk with Bob, while Laura leaned against the corner of the chimney and watched them with her wide eyes, or took sly naps, and let her head thump, at which Mary and Bob would laugh. And the Doctor lay on the lounge in the back of the room, and pretended to be asleep, while he listened to their talk, if might be he should hear something which would be food for the jealousy which was racking him. But, no; had their conversation been published, the world would have only thought that...