The Two Sisters

Excerpt: Long had the young creature suffered in silence, rather than disturb the rest of the family domestics, whose old-fashioned regularity had sent them to bed, as usual, at a very early hour ; and not until amid pain and terror she had partly lost her self-command, did she pull the bell-rope, ringing a peal that presently brought her nurse from the next room—the young lady's dressing-room—where a cot had been placed for her temporary accommodation. This matron was no Mrs. Gamp, but one of those skillful, neat-handed, kind-hearted, cheerful and comfortable old ladies, who are not only a great consolation, but a real luxury in illness. About the Author: "Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819~1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era.