If he were to die!" "There, there, don't tremble so, child.

We must hope that it is not so bad as that; but he would hardly be looking so bad as he does, for only a broken collarbone.

My husband broke his--one day the horse ran away with him, among some trees--and he was up and about again, in a day or two.
"Is he badly hurt, do you think, John ?" she asked her husband, who was kneeling beside Reuben.
"I hope not," the settler said.

"He ought not to be like this, only from a wound in the collarbone; but of course it may have glanced down, and done some internal mischief.

I am inclined to think that it is extreme exhaustion, as much as anything--the reaction after a tremendous nervous excitement." "He has ridden a hundred and fifty miles, since yesterday morning," Kate said, "and has had two fights, besides this.