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of cold water, when he come home that day, turn as white
as ashes and remembers seeing him shiver as if he had an
ague--But at the time and for a day or two after, no one
took notice and he was so taken up with mistress, who fell
from one fit into another, the day Master William died,
that he never thought of himself, till he was so ill he
couldn't get out o'bed. When the doctor came, he bled
him, but the pleurisy had got such a hold on him, that
all the doctors in the world they said couldn't have cured
him--and yesterday--yes yesterday--he was laid beside his
little son--oh my poor mistress--she will not I take it stay
long behind"-- This and a great deal more," said Richard
did the old cook tell me. And she says if her mistress does
git over it--she will be left in poverty--fer Mr Latimore
tho' he had a fine office, hadn't no fartin, and now
he is dead, and his salary stopped, not one farthing has his
wife and children left them.
"Wonderful--wonderful!" said Lucy--"But a few days ago, and
this dear young lady, looked the happiest--as sure she is the best
lady that ever lived. oh that I could go to her and in her poverty
and her distress that I might wait on her and tend her!"
"If she gets over it," said Richard--"the cook says she will
go to Boston and live with her father, who they expect here very soon