10 GLENOWEN, OR THE

constant attendant upon Mrs. Evelynn
and her children.

Charles and Rosa did not fail to
remind their good nurse (the appellation
by which, from her frequent attendance
at the Vicarage, she was always known
to them) of her promise to let them

again visit their mamma, should she be

~ well enough to admit them again to
her chamber. But the agitation Mrs.
Evelynn had: undergone, while antici-
pating the near approach of her disso-
lution, asa ‘separation from her chil-
dren, their artless endearments, and
the various nameless ties that wind
about the human heart, and connect it
but too strongly with this mortal state,
had brought on such an accession of
fever, that the next day she became
delirious