Miss Bayle's Romance [by W F Rae]

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Uncle Cecil's End. Mr. Wentworth stayed at Paris on his way to Bordeaux. He did so in order to inquire about his uncle Cecil whom he had expected to meet at Homburg. The uncle and nephew seldom corresponded; but the nephew always made a point, when he visited Paris, of calling at his uncle's...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Uncle Cecil's End. Mr. Wentworth stayed at Paris on his way to Bordeaux. He did so in order to inquire about his uncle Cecil whom he had expected to meet at Homburg. The uncle and nephew seldom corresponded; but the nephew always made a point, when he visited Paris, of calling at his uncle's rooms in the Champs Elysees and this mark of attention on Rupert's part always gratified his uncle. Had they seen more of each other they might not have remained on such good terms. They had little in common except their relationship. Their tastes differed in one important respect. The uncle was never perfectly happy out ofParis; the nephew had never been thoroughly happy in it. Kupert Wentworth found his uncle confined to his room and very ill. He had been ailing since his run to Monte Carlo and back. Mr. Cecil Wentworth was what the doctors call a bad patient. With the exception of a slight attack of influenza he had seldom been ill since his boyhood, and the man who attains the age of fifty-six without denying himself any pleasure and without suffering in health cannot understand why he should ever be indisposed. When Mr. Cecil Wentworth had the premonitory symptoms of the illness which proved to be serious, he neither took precautions nor physic. On the contrary, he drank an extra bottle of wine daily under the notion that he was run down and required stimulants. What Mr. Cecil Wentworth really required was a low diet, to eat nothing more heating than bread and drink nothing more intoxicating RUPERT WELCOMED BY HIS UNCLE. 43 than water. A week before his nephew saw him he had an apoplectic fit. Though the stroke was severe, he rallied very quickly. His doctor impressed upon him the necessity for self denial and hinted that he had better communicate with his...