But it is also certain that he will die early; and more than likely that he will come to grief, when he has lost his nerve, in one or other of the mad exploits which he will be too proud to discontinue.
Then will your Richard become the most assiduous and painstaking of nurses that ever humored crack-brained patient.

But there! I have made a dozen programmes of what is to happen, and this is but a specimen.

Who can tell?
I may be heir of Crompton yet, or I may come back to you to-morrow like a bad penny, and with what the vulgar describe as a flea in my ear." "It will not surprise you to learn that you are personally held in great disfavor here, though the chaplain (who has heard all from the Squire's lips) speaks of you with due respect.

The last thing that is desired at Crompton is, of course, the return of its lawful mistress.

Carew himself is very bitter against you, which is doubtless owing to the good offices of grandmamma.