"
"Was it afore Will set off?" asked Mary.
"No, he were gone before I got there," said Margaret; "and she were
much about as well as she has been for many a day. She spoke a bit,
but not much; but that were only natural, for Mrs. Wilson likes to
have the talk to hersel, you know. She got up to go across the
room, and then I heard a drag wi' her leg, and presently a fall, and
Mrs. Wilson came running, and set up such a cry! I stopped wi'
Alice, while she fetched a doctor; but she could not speak, to
answer me, though she tried, I think."
"Where was Jem? Why didn't he go for the doctor?"
"He were out when I got there, and he never came home while I
stopped."
"Thou'st never left Mrs. Wilson alone wi' poor Alice?" asked Job
hastily.
"No, no," said Margaret. "But oh! grandfather, it's now I feel how
hard it is to have lost my sight. I should have so loved to nurse
her; and I did try, until I found I did more harm than good. O
grandfather; if I could but see!"
She sobbed a little; and they let her give that ease to her heart.
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