All that could be done for a person in his circumstances, your ladyship did; and I know he is deeply sensible of it, my lady." "It was only my duty, Corbet," she replied, "to a true-hearted and faithful servant, for such he was to our family.

I could not forget the esteem in which his master, my dear husband, held him, nor the confidence which he never failed, and justly, to repose in him.

Go immediately to him, for he has expressed much anxiety to see you." His brother, indeed, found him hovering on the very brink of the grave.
What their conversation was, we know not, unless in so far as a portion of it at least may be inferred from the subsequent circumstances of our story.

After having spent about an hour with him, his brother, who, it seems, had some pressing commissions to execute for Sir Thomas, was obliged to leave him for a time, but promised to return as soon as he could, get them discharged.

In the meantime, poor Corbet sank rapidly after Charles's departure, and begged, with a degree of anguish that was pitiable, to see Lady Gourlay, as he had something, he said, of the utmost importance to communicate to her.