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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tzhfsh6" data-source="post: 11447217" data-attributes="member: 380662">〈Eight Cousins〉Serial•A Scare-2Charlie listened and heard little moans that went to his heart andmade his face as sober as Phebe's. "O uncle, please stop the pain,and let me rest a minute! Don't tell the boys I wasn't brave. I try tobear it, but it's so sharp I can't help crying."Neither could Charlie, when he heard the broken voice say that;but,[FONT=宋体] [/FONT]<a href="http://www.cheapoakleysoutlet.org/" target="_blank">cheap oakley sunglasses china</a>, boy-like, he wouldn't own it, and said pettishly, as he rubbedhis sleeve across his eyes"Don't hold that confounded thing right under my nose; themustard makes my eyes smart.""Don't see how it can, when it hasn't any more strength in it thanmeal. The Doctor said so, and I'm going to get some better," beganPhebe, not a bit ashamed of the great tears that were bedewing thecondemned plaster.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"I'll go!" and Charlie was off like a shot, glad of an excuse to getout of sight for a few minutes.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]When he came back all inconvenient emotion had been disposedof, and, having delivered a box of the hottest mustard procurablefor money, he departed to "blow up" Mac, that being his next dutyin his opinion. He did it so energetically and thoroughly that thepoor Worm was cast into the depths of remorseful despair, andwent to bed that evening feeling that he was an outcast fromamong men, and bore the mark of Cain upon his brow.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]Thanks to the skill of the Doctor, and the devotion of his helpers,Rose grew easier about midnight, and all hoped that the worst wasover. Phebe was making tea by the study fire, for the Doctor hadforgotten to eat and drink since Rose was ill, and Aunt Plentyinsisted on his having a "good cordial dish of tea" after hisexertions. A tap on the window startled Phebe, and, looking up,she saw a face peering in. She was not afraid, for a second lookshowed her that it was neither ghost nor burglar, but Mac, lookingpale and wild in the wintry moonlight.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"Come and let a fellow in," he said in a low tone, and when hestood in the hall he clutched Phebe's arm, whispering gruffly,"How is Rose?""Thanks be to goodness, she's better," answered Phebe, with asmile that was like broad sunshine to the poor lad's anxious heart.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"And she will be all right again to-morrow?""Oh, dear no! Dolly says she's sure to have rheumatic fever, if shedon't have noo-monia!" answered Phebe, careful to pronounce theword rightly this time.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]Down went Mac's face, and remorse began to gnaw at him again ashe gave a great sigh and said doubtfully"I suppose I couldn't see her?""Of course not at this time of night, when we want her to go tosleep!"Mac opened his mouth to say something more, when a sneezecame upon him unawares, and a loud "Ah rash hoo!" awoke theechoes of the quiet house.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"Why didn't you stop it?" said Phebe reproachfully. "I dare sayyou've waked her up.""Didn't know it was coming. Just my luck!" groaned Mac, turningto go before his unfortunate presence did more harm.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]But a voice from the stair-head called softly, "Mac, come up; Rosewants to see you."Up he went, and found his uncle waiting for him.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"What brings you here at this hour, my boy?" asked the Doctor in awhisper.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"Charlie said it was all my fault, and if she died I'd killed her. Icouldn't sleep, so I came to see how she was, and no one knows itbut Steve," he said with such a troubled face and voice that theDoctor had not the heart to blame him.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]Before he could say anything more a feeble voice called "Mac!"and with a hasty "Stay a minute just to please her, and then slipaway, for I want her to sleep," the Doctor led him into the room.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]The face on the pillow looked very pale and childish, and the smilethat welcomed Mac was very faint, for Rose was spent with pain,yet could not rest till she had said a word of comfort to her cousin.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"I knew your funny sneeze, and I guessed that you came to see howI did, though it is very late. Don't be worried, I'm better now, and itis my fault I was ill, not yours; for I needn't have been so silly as towait in the cold just because I said I would."Mac hastened to explain, to load himself with reproaches, and tobeg her not to die on any account,[FONT=宋体] [/FONT]<a href="http://www.cheapoakleysoutlet.org/" target="_blank">Oakley sunglasses</a>, for Charlie's lecture had made adeep impression on the poor boy's mind.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"I didn't know there was any danger of my dying," and Rose lookedup at him with a solemn expression in her great eyes.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"Oh, I hope not; but people do sometimes go suddenly, you know,and I couldn't rest till I'd asked you to forgive me," faltered Mac,thinking that Rose looked very like an angel already, with thegolden hair loose on the pillow, and the meekness of suffering onher little white face.[FONT=宋体]　　[/FONT]"I don't think I shall die; uncle won't let me; but if I do, remember Iforgave you."She looked at him with a tender light in her eyes, and, seeing howpathetic his dumb grief was, she added softly, drawing his headdown, "I wouldn't kiss you under the mistletoe, but I will now, for Iwant you to be sure I do forgive and love you just the same."That quite upset poor Mac; he could only murmur his thanks andget out of the room as fast as possible, to grope his way to thecouch at the far end of the hall, and lie there till he fell asleep,worn out with trying not to "make a baby" of himself.</blockquote>

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