Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis
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"It is another boat, English folk also, that comes to arrive." She turned and waited. And then, coming up the hill, she saw George, and with him--Lisa! Lisa, smiling as she talked. They ran to meet her with cries of amazement. She staggered back on the rock. "You are not dead? Lisa----" "Dead? Poor lady!" catching her in her arms. "Some water, George! It is her head. She has been too much alone." When Frances opened her eyes she was lying on the grass, her children kneeling beside her. She caught Lisa's arm in both hands and felt it: then she sat up. "I must tell you what I did--before you speak to me." "Not now," said Lisa. "You are not well. I am going to be your nurse. The baby has made me a very good nurse," and she stooped again over Frances, with kind, smiling eyes. Selo came to wile George up to the mysterious cave, but |
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