He married and took his wife out to a farm in the Bush, and thought to make a good thing out of farming with the bit of brass he'd saved at heeam.

But America isn't Gert Langdale, you see, my lady, and his knowledge stood him in no stead in the Bush; and first he lost his money, and he fashed himself terrible about that, and then he lost a child or two, and then he lost his wife, and he came back to us a broken-hearted man, with no wish to live.

The doctor may call it atrophy, but I will call it what the Scripture calls it, a broken and a wounded spirit.' 'Who is your doctor ?' 'Mr.Evans, of Ambleside.' 'That little half-blind old man!' exclaimed her ladyship.

'Surely you have no confidence in him ?' 'Not much, my lady.

But I don't believe all the doctors in London could do anything for Robert.