The Linwoods Volume 1-2; Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ... five minutes a warm bath was prepared, and the child immersed in it. Mrs. Archer was re-nerved when she saw others acting from a hope she scarcely dared admit. "Station yourself here, my dear madam," said Eliot; " there, put your arm in the place of mine--let your little boy go on the other side and take her hand--let her first conscious sensation be of the touch most familiar and dear to her--let the first sounds she hears be your voices--nothing must be strange to her. I do believe this is merely the overpowering effect of terror; I am sure she has suffered no violence. Put your hand again on her bosom, my dear little fellow--do you feel the beats now?" "Oh yes, sir stronger and quicker than before." "I believe you are right; but be cautious, I entreat you--make no sudden outcry nor exclamation." Mrs. Archer's face was as colourless as the child's over whom she was bending; and her fixed eye glowed with such intensity, that Eliot thought it might have kindled life in the dead. Suddenly, he perceived the blood gush into her cheeks--he advanced one step nearer, and he saw that a faint suffusion, like the first almost imperceptible tinge of coming day, had overspread the child's face. It deepened around her lips--there was a slight distention of the nostrils--a tremulousness about the muscles of the mouth--a heaving of the bosom, and then a deep-drawn sigh. A moment passed, and a faint smile was perceptible on the quivering lip. "Lizzy " said her mother. "Dear Lizzy " cried her brother. "Mother --Ned " she faintly articulated. "Thank God, she is safe " exclaimed Eliot. The energies of nature, once aroused, soon did their beneficent work; and the little girl, in the perfect cons...