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`` All that night and three days more he slept as sound as a little child , to make up for so many years . We called two doctors in ; but they only whispered and looked dismal , and told us to have hot water ready at any hour of the day or night . Nobody loved him as I did , miss , from seeing so much of his troubles and miraculous way of bearing them ; and I sat by the hour and hour , and watched him , trusting no paid nurses . `` It must have been eight o'clock on Wednesday morning -- what is to-day ? Oh , Friday -- then Thursday morning it must have been , when the clouds opened up in the east , and the light of the sun was on the window-sill , not glaring or staring , but playing about , with patterns of leaves between it ; and I went to screen it from his poor white face ; but he opened his eyes , as if he had been half awake , half dreaming , and he tried to lift one of his thin , thin hands to tell me not to do it . So I let the curtain stay as it was , and crept back , and asked , very softly , ` Will your lordship have some breakfast ? ' `` He did not seem to comprehend me , but only watched the window ; and if ever a blessed face there was , looking toward heaven 's glory , his lordship had it , so that I could scarcely keep from sobbing .