Mother has begun to cough and I worry all the more, for her and the baby. Molly the servant girl had started just this way and she was getting worse and worse each day.
King seemed restless, but with Papa gone to work, so I couldn't leave Mama or little Eddie. And Mama had gotten worse. She was getting very weak. So weak Papa had called a doctor before he had left.
There was a knock at the door. "Hello, young lady," Dr. Robins told me as I opened the door. "Where is your mother?"
"In the bedroom, sir." With a nodd, Robins left to attend my Mama, and I stayed with Eddie. The baby cooed as I picked him up, nuzzling his face into my neck.
"It's as I feared," I heard the doctor mutter to himself. "I'm sorry, dear, your mother's in grave condition. The fever that's begun to spread through town." Just then, I prayed to God Mama would be alright.
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The Jessa Hopkins Chronicles
RandomThe sea had been treacherous as Jessa and her family had journeyed, by way of the ship called the sparrow, to the shores of America. It had docked briefly in the Boston Harbor, before sailing off again for New York. It had meant only to gather suppl...
