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| George Delmes bosom companion had been an officer of his own age and standing in the service with whom he had embarked when leaving England Their had ripened into the closest friendship George had met Acme although the surgeon knew not the particulars of the rencontrehad confided to his friend the acquaintance he had madeand had himself introduced Delancey at the house where Acme resided Whether her charms really tempted the friend to endeavour to supplant George or whether he considered the latters attentions to the young Greek to be without definite object and undertaken in a spirit of indifference the narrator could not explain but it was not long before Delancey considered himself as a principal in the transaction Acme whose knowledge of the world was slight and whose previous seclusion from society had rendered her timidity excessive considered that her best mode of avoiding importunities she disliked and attentions that were painful to her would be to speak to George himself on the subject |
| By this time the latter quite fascinated by her beauty and simplicity and deeming as was indeed the fact that his love was returned needed not other inquietudes than those his attachment gave him The pride of ancestry and station on the one handon the other a deep affection and a wish to act nobly by Acmecaused an internal struggle which made him open to any excitement nervously alive to any wrong He sought his friend and used reproaches which rendered it imperative that they should meet as foes Delancey was wounded and ashethoughtand it was long doubtful whether itweresomortally He beckoned George Delme to his bedsidebegged him to forgive himtold him that his friendship had been the greatest source of delight to hima friendship which in his dying moments he begged to renewthat far from feeling pain at his approaching dissolution he conceived that he had merited all and only waited his full and entire forgiveness to die happy George Delme wrung his hands in the bitterness of despairprayed him to live for his saketold him that did he not his own life hereafter would be one of the deepest miserythat the horrors of remorse would weigh him down to his grave The surgeon was the first to terminate a scene which he assured Delme was one of the most painful it had ever been his lot to witness This meeting though of so agitating a nature seemed to have a beneficial effect on the wounded man He sunk into a sweet sleep and on awaking his pulse was lower and his symptoms less critical He improved gradually and was now convalescent But it was otherwise with George Delme He sought the solitude of his chamber a prey to the agonies of a selfreproaching spirit He considered himself instrumental in taking the life of his best friendof one richly endowed with the loftiest feelings humanity can boast His nerves previously had been unstrung body and mind sank under the picture his imagination had conjured up His servant was alarmed by startling screams entered his room and found his master in fearful convulsions A fever ensued during which Georges life hung by a thread To this succeeded a long state of unconsciousness occasionally broken by wild delirium |
| During his illness there was one who never left himwho smoothed his pillowwho supported his head on her who watched him as a mother watches her firstborn It was the youthful Greek Acme Frascati The instant she heard of his danger she left her home to tend him No entreaties could influence her no arguments persuade She would sit by his bedside for hours his feverish hand locked in hers and implore him to recover to bless one who loved him so dearly They could not part them for George even in his delirious state seemed to be conscious that some one was near him and did she leave his side would rise in his bed and look around him as if missing some accustomed object In his wilder flights he would call passionately upon her and beg her to save his friend who was lying so and still For a length of time neither care nor professional s availed Fearful was the struggle between his disease and a naturally y constitution Reason at last resumed her dominion I know not said the surgeon the particulars of the first dawning of consciousness It appears that Acme was alone with him and that it was at night I found him on my professional visit one morning clear and collected and his mistress sobbing her thanks I need perhaps ly inform you said the narrator that Georges gratitude to Acme was vividly expressed It was in vain I urged on her the propriety of now leaving her lover This was met on both sides by an equal disinclination and indeed obstinate refusal and I |
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