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Excerpt from Passages From the Diary of a Late Physician, Vol. 3 of 3
Mrs. St. Helen, a young, a fond, and beautiful moth er, having, one morning in June, 18 observed a faint ?ush on the forehead of her infant son, her firstborn and only child, and ascertained from the nursery maid that he had been rather restless during the night, persuaded herself and her husband that mat. Ters were serious enough to require immediate med. Ical assistance from London. The worthy colonel, therefore, ordered his phaeton to be at the door by ten o'clock; and, having been scarcely allowed by his anxious wife to swallow a cup of coffee and finish his egg, presently jumped into his vehicle and dash ed o?' almost as rapidly as Mrs. St. Helen, who re mained standing on the steps, could have wished. Though the distance was nearly nine miles, he reach ed my house by a little after eleven, and was at once shown into my room, where I was arranging my list of daily visits. It seemed clear, from this hurried statement, that his little son and heir was about to encounter the perils of scarlet fever or measles, at the very least; and such were his importunities, that, though I had several special engagements for the early part of the day, I was induced, at his su ges tion, to put two hacks to my carriage, and drive own to Densleigh Grange, accompanied by'the colonel, who ordered his servant to remain in town till the horses had been rested.
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