Chapter 23
Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 Meanwhile, John Derringham lay betwixt life and death and was watched over by the kind eye of Arabella Clinker. She had gathered quite a number of facts in the night, while she had listened to his feverish ravings--he was light-headed for several hours before the nurses came--then the fever had decreased and though extremely weak he was silent. Arabella knew now that he loved Halcyone--that wood nymph they had seen during their Easter Sunday walk--and that he had been going to meet her when the accident had happened. The rest was a jumble of incoherent phrases all giving the impression of intense des
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