There was devoted attention, extreme gentle treatment, study of pathology, advantage of medical attendance always at hand, careful nursing, extreme solicitude, fragility of constitution restored, propriety of enlarging the circle of her innocent affections, ending at last in devoted love, and a proposal--to share her carriage and establishment.
Miss Tavistock assumed another faint--the shock was so great; but the doctor knelt by her, and kissed her hand, with well affected rapture.

At last, she murmured out a low assent, and fell back, as if exhausted with the effort.

The doctor removed his lips from her hand to her mouth, to seal the contract; and, as she yielded to his wishes, almost regretted that he had not adhered to his previous less assuming gallantry..