I had not attempted to deceive her in any
thing from the beginning; she had seen this, and the fact gave her
confidence in all my statements touching her daughter's condition.
At the end of a week, I commenced giving stimulants, selecting, as
the chief article, sound old Maderia wine. The effect was soon
apparent, in a firmer pulse and a quickened vitality. The lethargic
condition in which she had lain for most of the time since the
commencement of the attack, began to give way, and in a much shorter
period than is usually the case, in this disease, we had the
unmistakable signs of convalescence.
"Thank God, who, by means of your skill, has given me back my
precious child!" said the mother to me, one day, after Blanche was
able to sit up in bed. She took my hand and grasped it tightly. I
saw that she was deeply moved. I merely answered:
"With Him are the issues of life."
"And I have tried to leave all with Him," she said. "To be willing
to suffer even that loss, the bare thought of which makes me
shudder. But I am not equal to the trial, and in mercy He has spared
me.
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