About ten in the evening
The poor child was completely worn out with fatigue and grief . But Mary never left her watch for a minute . All the evening she sat by Mrs. Chester 's couch , bathing the forehead of her benefactress , cooling the palms of her hands , and listening to the soft murmurs that fell from her lips . About ten in the evening , there came into the ward a young man , not more than twenty years of age , and singularly effeminate in his appearance . He wore a loose calico dressing-gown , and embroidered slippers . His manners were gentle , and he seemed greatly distressed by all the misery that surrounded him . Never in his brief existence had this young man prescribed for a patient , till he entered the Hospitals at Bellevue ; yet there he stood , in the midst of a pestilence that might have taxed the skill of twenty old physicians , free to tamper as he pleased with all that mass of human misery .