Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌​⁠For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs. Linton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated a brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly than Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason could inflict; and, though Kenneth remarked t