Considerations for his own state and prospects swallowed up the curiosity he might otherwise have felt as to his singular neighbour.

He had not touched food since the early morning.

Anxiety had made him insensible to hunger, till he arrived at Mr.Plaskwith's; and then, feverish, sore, and sick at heart, the sight of the luxuries gracing the tea-table only revolted him.

He did not now feel hunger, but he was fatigued and faint.

For several nights the sleep which youth can so ill dispense with had been broken and disturbed; and now, the rapid motion of the coach, and the free current of a fresher and more exhausting air than he had been accustomed to for many months, began to operate on his nerves like the intoxication of a narcotic.