"None can have failed to remark it.

From entire calmness of mind, he has exhibited anxious restlessness; I may say irritability.

Mrs.Verner is ill," Lionel added, as they were ascending the stairs.

"She has not been out of bed for two days." Not in his study now; he had done with the lower part of the house for ever; but in his bed-chamber, never to come out of it alive, was Mr.
Verner.

They had got him up, and he sat in an easy-chair by the bedside, partially dressed, and wrapped in his dressing-gown.