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presents out of his pocket money and small
tips, and taking her with him on his
expeditions to shoot, and deer stalk and
foxhunt, and search for flowers and wild
birds eggs. With what devotion
and as you truly say heroism, she
watched over his sickbed. Herself under the
strain of anxiety tightening into fear and
almost into despair at the end she was
the picture of calm and cheerfulness as long
as she was in his sickroom: and she
entertained him with his favourite books
and talk so well, that except for a couple
of days pain, and ten days prostration
at the first onset of the disease he was
in good spirits, with his usual cheerful
outlook until his mind began to cloud