The nurse shook her head sadly.

"He is very dangerously ill." "Is he ?" said they both, anxiously.

And then they preserved a deep silence; and when Montagu, who immediately began to dress, knelt down to say his prayers, Eric, though unable to get up, knelt also over his pillow, and the two felt that their young earnest prayers were mingling for the one who seemed to have been taken while they were left.
The reports grew darker and darker about Edwin, At first it was thought that the blow on his head was dangerous, and that the exposure to wet, cold, fear, and hunger, had permanently weakened his constitution; and when his youth seemed to be triumphing over these dangers, another became more threatening.

His leg never mended; he had both sprained the knee badly, and given the tibia an awkward twist, so that the least motion was agony to him.
In his fever he was constantly delirious.

No one was allowed to see him, though many of the boys tried to do so, and many were the earnest inquiries for him day by day.