Her Faithful Knight — page 104: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER X. MR. DARCY'S COMEDY COMPANY. Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Margate, Ramsgate, Bournemouth, and Plymouth. The names alone, to a girl who loved the sea, and who for more than three years had not feasted her eyes upon it, sounded refreshing in the extreme. ‘The last week in June, the whole of July, and Bank Holiday week in Aug- ust, were to be taken up by the tour. Parting from Phy]l- lis so soon after the sisters had been reunited was very hard to Dorothy; but Dr. Morgan had promised to look in at Lockhart Cottages at least once a day, the trained nurse was in every way Satisfactory, and Dorothy had been very careful to leave behind her fifty envelopes, al- ready stamped and addressed to her at the different thea- tres where she would be acting, in order that she might hear daily from the nurse or Cresswell of her sister’s progress. Hour after hour Phyllis Yay perfectly still, listening to the nurse’s pleasant voice as she read aloud novel after novel from a neighboring library to which Dorothy had paid a subscription. Extreme weakness, utter collapse of the nerves, and an anaemic condition of the heart and brain, such were the terms in which Dr. Morgan spoke of her case; perfect rest from all trouble, worry, and excitement, careful nursing and nourishing food, were the chief things needed. She hardly seemed to understand when Dorothy, trying to laugh through her tears, waved a banknote before her eyes, and whispered that she was Eomicbooks (E@)