{"product_id":"2940014464598","title":"Majorie Daw","description":"I.\u003cbr\u003eDR. DILLON TO EDWARD DELANEY, ESQ., AT THE PINES. NEAR RYE, N.H.\u003cbr\u003eAugust 8, 1872.\u003cbr\u003eMy Dear Sir: I am happy to assure you that your anxiety is without\u003cbr\u003ereason. Flemming will be confined to the sofa for three or four weeks,\u003cbr\u003eand will have to be careful at first how he uses his leg. A fracture\u003cbr\u003eof this kind is always a tedious affair. Fortunately the bone was very\u003cbr\u003eskilfully set by the surgeon who chanced to be in the drugstore where\u003cbr\u003eFlemming was brought after his fall, and I apprehend no permanent\u003cbr\u003einconvenience from the accident. Flemming is doing perfectly well\u003cbr\u003ephysically; but I must confess that the irritable and morbid state of\u003cbr\u003emind into which he has fallen causes me a great deal of uneasiness. He\u003cbr\u003eis the last man in the world who ought to break his leg. You know how\u003cbr\u003eimpetuous our friend is ordinarily, what a soul of restlessness and\u003cbr\u003eenergy, never content unless he is rushing at some object, like a\u003cbr\u003esportive bull at a red shawl; but amiable withal. He is no longer\u003cbr\u003eamiable. His temper has become something frightful. Miss Fanny\u003cbr\u003eFlemming\u003cbr\u003ecame up from Newport, where the family are staying for the summer, to\u003cbr\u003enurse him; but he packed her off the next morning in tears. He has a\u003cbr\u003ecomplete set of Balzac's works, twenty-seven volumes, piled up near\u003cbr\u003ehis\u003cbr\u003esofa, to throw at Watkins whenever that exemplary serving-man appears\u003cbr\u003ewith his meals. Yesterday I very innocently brought Flemming a small\u003cbr\u003ebasket of lemons. You know it was a strip of lemon-peel on the\u003cbr\u003ecurbstone\u003cbr\u003ethat caused our friend's mischance. Well, he no sooner set is eyes\u003cbr\u003eupon those lemons than he fell into such a rage as I cannot adequately\u003cbr\u003edescribe. This is only one of moods, and the least distressing. At\u003cbr\u003eother\u003cbr\u003etimes he sits with bowed head regarding his splintered limb, silent,\u003cbr\u003esullen, despairing. When this fit is on him--and it sometimes lasts\u003cbr\u003eall\u003cbr\u003eday--nothing can distract his melancholy. He refuses to eat, does not\u003cbr\u003eeven read the newspapers; books, except as projectiles for Watkins,\u003cbr\u003ehave\u003cbr\u003eno charms for him. His state is truly pitiable.\u003cbr\u003eNow, if he were a poor man, with a family depending on his daily\u003cbr\u003elabor,\u003cbr\u003ePage 1\u003cbr\u003eMajorie Daw\u003cbr\u003ethis irritability and despondency would be natural enough. But in a\u003cbr\u003eyoung fellow of twenty-four, with plenty of money and seemingly not a\u003cbr\u003ecare in the world, the thing is monstrous. If he continues to give\u003cbr\u003eway to his vagaries in this manner, he will end by bringing on an\u003cbr\u003einflammation of the fibula. It was the fibula he broke. I am at my\u003cbr\u003ewits'\u003cbr\u003eend to know what to prescribe for him. I have anaesthetics and\u003cbr\u003elotions,\u003cbr\u003eto make people sleep and to soothe pain; but I've no medicine that\u003cbr\u003ewill\u003cbr\u003emake a man have a little common-sense. That is beyond my skill, but\u003cbr\u003emaybe it is not beyond yours. You are Flemming's intimate friend, his\u003cbr\u003efidus Achates. Write to him, write to him frequently, distract his\u003cbr\u003emind, cheer him up, and prevent him from becoming a confirmed case of\u003cbr\u003emelancholia. Perhaps he has some important plans disarranged by his\u003cbr\u003epresent confinement. If he has you will know, and will know how to\u003cbr\u003eadvise him judiciously. I trust your father finds the change\u003cbr\u003ebeneficial?\u003cbr\u003eI am, my dear sir, with great respect, etc.\u003cbr\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD DELANEY TO JOHN FLEMMING, WEST 38TH STREET, NEW YORK.\u003cbr\u003eAugust 9, 1872.\u003cbr\u003eMy Dear Jack: I had a line from Dillon this morning, and was rejoiced\u003cbr\u003eto learn that your hurt is not so bad as reported. Like a certain\u003cbr\u003epersonage, you are not so black and blue as you are painted. Dillon\u003cbr\u003ewill\u003cbr\u003eput you on your pins again in two to three weeks, if you will only\u003cbr\u003ehave\u003cbr\u003epatience and follow his counsels. Did you get my note of last\u003cbr\u003eWednesday?\u003cbr\u003eI was greatly troubled when I heard of the accident.\u003cbr\u003eI can imagine how tranquil and saintly you are with your leg in a\u003cbr\u003etrough! It is deuced awkward, to be sure, just as we had promised\u003cbr\u003eourselves a glorious month together at the sea-side; but we must make\u003cbr\u003ethe best of it. It is unfortunate, too, that my father's health\u003cbr\u003erenders\u003cbr\u003eit impossible for me to leave him. I think he has much improved; the\u003cbr\u003esea\u003cbr\u003eair is his native element; but he still needs my arm to lean upon in\u003cbr\u003ehis\u003cbr\u003ewalks, and requires some one more careful that a servant to look after\u003cbr\u003ehim. I cannot come to you, dear Jack, but I have hours of unemployed\u003cbr\u003etime on hand, and I will write you a whole post-office full of\u003cbr\u003eletters,\u003cbr\u003ePage 2\u003cbr\u003eMajorie Daw\u003cbr\u003eif that will divert you. Heaven knows, I haven't anything to write\u003cbr\u003eabout. It isn't as if we were living at one of the beach houses; then\u003cbr\u003eI could do you some character studies, and fill your imagination with\u003cbr\u003egroups of sea-goddesses, with their (or somebody else's) raven and\u003cbr\u003eblonde manes hanging down their shoulders. You should have Aphrodite\u003cbr\u003ein\u003cbr\u003emorning wrapper, in even","brand":"All classic book warehouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162662224112,"sku":"2940014464598","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014464598_p0.jpg?v=1763609302","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014464598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}