'"
"Suppose I could get it into Miss's hands when she's alone?" whispered
Sarah.
"You would earn my warmest gratitude."
"'Warmest gratitude!' Is that a warm gownd, or a warm clock, I wonder?"
"It is both, when the man is a gentleman, and a pretty, dark- eyed girl
pities him and stands his friend."
Sarah smiled, and whispered, "Give it me; I'll do my best."
Alfred enclosed the prescription and his note in one cover, handed them
to her, and slipped a sovereign into her hand. He whispered, "Be
prudent."
"I'm dark, sir," said she: and went off briskly homewards, and Alfred
stood rapt in dreamy joy, and so self-elated that, had he been furnished
like a peacock, he would have instantly become a "thing all eyes," and
choked up Jenner's shop, and swept his counter. He had made a step
towards familiarity, had written her a letter; and then, if this
prescription came, as he suspected, from Dr. Sampson, she would perhaps
be at the ball. This opened a delightful vista. Meantime, Mrs. Dodd had
communicated Sampson's opinion to Julia, adding that there was a
prescription besides, gone to be made up.
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