At length she recovered and looked up, a little bewildered, but soon
memory and understanding returned and, gazing at her uncle, she suddenly
threw her arms around his neck and burst into tears.
She was then carried away into one of the best negro quarters and laid
upon a bed, and attended by her mother and her maid Maria.
The commodore, with his wife, found shelter in another quarter. And the
few remaining members of the household were accommodated in a similar
manner elsewhere.
It was near noon before they were all ready to set forth from the scene
of disaster, and it was the middle of the afternoon when they found
themselves temporarily settled at the little hotel at Benedict in the
very apartments formerly occupied by Edith and Marian.
Here Jacquelina suffered a long and severe spell of illness, during
which her bright hair was cut off.
And here beautiful Marian came, with her gift of tender nursing, and
devoted herself day and night to the service of the young invalid. And
all the leisure time she found while sitting by the sick bed she busily
employed in making up clothing for the almost denuded family. And never
had the dear girl's nimble fingers flown so fast or so willingly.
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