If possible let no one come in.

If I could sleep, this paroxysm will pass over." "There, sleep if you can, dear Gabriella, and be bright for the evening party.

You knew the dresses mamma gave us for the occasion, both alike.
I could not think of wearing mine, unless you were with me,--and you look so charmingly in white!" Edith had such a sweet, coaxing way with her, she magnetized pain and subdued self-distrust.

The mere touch of her gentle hand had allayed the fever of my brain, and one glance of her loving blue eye tempered the anguish of my spirit.

She lingered, unwilling to leave me,--drew the blinds together, making a soft twilight amid the glare of day, saturated my handkerchief with cologne and laid it on my temples, and placing a beautiful bouquet of flowers, an offering to herself, on my pillow, kissed me, and left me.
I watched the sound of her retreating footsteps, or rather of her crutches, till they were no longer heard; then burying my face in my pillow, the sultry anguish of my heart was drenched in tears.