Dinah Craik,
John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XIII
“ Phineas, I do think it is wicked, downright wicked, for a doctor to be afraid of telling a patient he is going to die—more wicked, perhaps, to keep the friends in ignorance until the last stunning blow falls. ”
Dinah Craik,
John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XIII
“ There she lay; physical weakness conquering the strong heart: she lay, overcome at last. There was no more to bear. Had there been, I think she would have been able to have borne it still.John took her in his arms; I know not if he took her, or Mrs. Tod gave her to him—but there she was. He carried her across the kitchen into our own little parlour, and laid her down on my sofa."Shut the door, Phineas. Mrs. Tod, keep everybody out. She is waking now." ”
Dinah Craik,
John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XIII
“ We sat and talked—less, perhaps, of them individually, than of the dark Angel, whom face to face I at least had never yet known—who even now stood at the door of our little habitation, making its various inmates feel as one family, in the presence of the great leveller of all things—Death. ”
