Dear, dear, that's not it.

I never do remember the doctor's foreign names.' 'Atrophy,' perhaps.
'Yes, my lady, that was it.

Happen such crack-jaw words come easy to a scholar like your ladyship.' 'Does the doctor give no hope ?' 'Well, no, my lady.

He don't go so far as to say there's no hope, though Robert has been badly so long.

It all depends, he says, upon the rallying power of the constitution.