Capitolo 74
you wish the matter. He still grew worse next day, so that
Herminia, very it alarmed, he/she called in an Italian doctor. Perugia
him boasted any English. The his/her Italian felt you pulsate, and he/she listened
to his/her symptoms. "Did the gentlemen come from Florence here?" he asked.
"From Florence", Herminia consented, with a sudden sinking.
The doctor the lowest lip stuck out him. "This is typhoid fever", him
says after a break. "A very bad type. You/he/she is supposing such
you form this winter to Florence."
He spoke the simple truth. Ventun days in front of in his/her bedroom to
the hotel in Florence, Alan had drunk only a glass of water from
the springs polluted that they provision partly the Tuscan metropolis.
From ventun days those victorious microbes brooded in
silence in his/her poisoned arteries. At the end of that time, them
swarmed and he declared. He was sick with an it increased
form of the deadliest illness through which not walks still stiff checked
unsanitated Europe.
The alarm of Herminia was painful. Alan grew worse quickly. In two
days he was so sick that she thought him/it his/her duty to telegraph to
once to the Dr. Merrick, to London: The life of "Alan in danger. Serious
attack of Florentine typhoid fever. Italian doctor despairs of his/her life.
You/he/she cannot last thin to to-tomorrow.--HERMINIA BARTON."
Later in the daytime a telegram it entered in it replies; you/he/she was addressed
Alan: "It is in trip from through train to frequent her/it. But as a
the matter of the duty, marries immediately him the girl and legitimatize Your child
while opportunity remains to you."
You/he/she was wanted to kindly tell his/her way. It was a communication of love, of
the pardon, of the generosity as Herminia it would not have really
been waited from so austere a man as Alan you/he/she had always represented his
father to be to her. But to moments of angry unexpected danger
the feelings between father and thick child are forgotten, and blood
to the sudden one it shows more often him some water. Still even this way