Miriam." Ralph laughed heartily, and read the note aloud.
"I should say," said Miss Panney, "that that girl has a good deal more conscience than fever.

She ought to have slept longer, but as she is awake I will go up and take a look at her; while you can blindfold yourself, if you like, and go out to the barns." The doctor did not arrive until late in the afternoon, and it was nearly half an hour after he had gone up to his patient before he reported to Ralph.
"She is all right," said he, "but I am not." The young man looked puzzled.
"By which I mean," continued the other, "that Miss Panney's concoction and the girl's vigorous young nature have thrown off the effects of her nap in the haunted garret, and that I am an allopathist, whereas I ought to be a homeopathist.

The young lady and I have had a long conversation on that subject and others.

I find that she is a Nonconformist." "What ?" asked Ralph.
"I use the word in its political and social, as well as its religious meaning.

That is a sister worth taking care of, sir.