Identifier: adventuresofphili02thac (find matches)
Title: The adventures of Philip on his way through the world : showing who robbed him, who helped him, and who passed him by
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Subjects: Hayes, Catharine (Hall) 1690-1726
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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rld is all cold ? There is thesun and the shadows. And the heaven which ordains pov-erty and sickness sends pity, and love, and succor. During Charlottes fever and illness, the Little Sister hadleft her but for one day, when her patient was quiet, andpronounced to be mending. It appears that Mrs. Charlottewas very ill indeed on this occasion; so ill that Dr. Good-enough thought she might have given us all the slip; so illthat, but for Brandon, she would, in all probability, haveescaped out of this troublous world, and left Philip and herorphaned little ones. Charlotte mended then : could takefood, and liked it, and was specially pleased with somechickens which her nurse informed her were from thecountry. From Sir John Eingwood, no doubt? said)\Irs. Firmin, remembering the presents sent from BerkeleySquare, and the mutton and the turnips. Well, eat and be thankful I says the Little Sister, whowas as gay as a little sister could be, and who had prepared ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD, 205
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a beautiful bread-sauce for the fowl; and who had tossedthe baby, and who showed it to its admiring brother andsister ever so many times; and who saw that Mr. Philiphad his dinner comfortable; and who never took so muchas a drop of porter — at home a little glass sometimes wascomfortable, but on duty, never, never! Xo, not if Dr, 266 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP Goodenougli ordered it, she vowed. And the doctor wishedhe coukl say as much, or believe as much, of all hisnurses. Milman Street is such a quiet little street that our friendshad not carpeted it in the usual way; and three days afterher temporary absence, as nurse Brandon sits by her patientsbed, powdering the back of a small pink infant that makesbelieve to swim upon her apron, a rattle of wheels is heardin the quiet street — of four wheels, of one horse, of ajingling carriage, which stops before Philips door. Itsthe trap, says nurse Brandon, delighted. It must bethose kind Kingwoods, says Mrs. Philip. But stop,Brandon. Did

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