4120 THE COUSINS

CHAPTER XI.
THE GOOD PHYSICIAN.

None who have read the last chapter can be
surprised to learn that, in spite of every precaution
used by her kind and anxious parents, Lucy
Lovett passed a night of restlessness and pain.
In the early morning, when her mother came to
her bedside, she found her skin parched, and her
face flushed with fever; and though she slept,
her frequent moans showed that she was not un-
conscious of pain. Before evening her symptoms
were so alarming, that Mr. Lovett determined to
send by the steamboat, which would leave N——
the next morning, for his physician from New
York. When the second morning came, there
was nothing to make him alter his design. Lucy
was now delirious with fever, and the lightest