Nature will do more for her than all our drugs can do.

You have been hitherto fearing Nature; now trust to her." Here Mrs.Poyntz joined us, and having, while I had been speaking, written my prescription and some general injunctions, I closed my advice with an appeal to that powerful protectress.
"This, my dear madam, is a case in which I need your aid, and I ask it.

Miss Ashleigh should not be left with no other companion than her mother.

A change of faces is often as salutary as a change of air.
If you could devote an hour or two this very evening to sit with Miss Ashleigh, to talk to her with your usual cheerfulness, and--" "Annie," interrupted Mrs.Poyntz, "I will come and drink tea with you at half-past seven, and bring my knitting; and perhaps, if you ask him, Dr.
Fenwick will come too! He can be tolerably entertaining when he likes it." "It is too great a tax on his kindness, I fear," said Mrs.Ashleigh.
"But," she added cordially, "I should be grateful indeed if he would spare us an hour of his time." I murmured an assent which I endeavoured to make not too joyous.
"So that matter is settled," said Mrs.Poyntz; "and now I shall go to Mr.Vigors and prevent his further interference." "Oh, but, Margaret, pray don't offend him,--a connection of my poor dear Gilbert's.

And so tetchy! I am sure I do not know how you'll manage to--" "To get rid of him?
Never fear.