[Gutenberg 1665] • Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

Excerpt from Max Hereford's Dream, Derrick Vaughan, Novelist: The Autobiography of a Slander

"He is wonderfully patient," said the doctor to the sick-nurse, as she followed him to the head of the stairs.

"I never saw any one more patient."

The door was ajar, and tho sick man heard the words. H he had had a wife sitting there beside him, he would have turned toward her with a glance half humorous, half pathetic. As ho had no wife, his eyes remained sad, but tho ghost of a smile flickered about his pale lips. There was enough truth in the words to make them praise and not flattery, and there was tho inevitable personal pronoun which makes all praise, if rightly understood, tend to produce humility.

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