You will excuse me for not inquiring after your son's health; how is he ?" "Indeed, my lord, we know not what to say; neither does the doctor who attends him--the same, by the way, who attended Miss Goodwin.

At present he can say neither yes or no to his recovery." "No, nor will not as long as he can; I know those gentry well.

Curse the thing on earth frightens one of them so much as any appearance of convalescence in a patient.

I had during my life about half a dozen fits of illness, and whenever they found that I was on the recovery, they always contrived to throw me back with their damned nostrums, for a month or six weeks together, that they might squeeze all they could out of me.

O, devilish rogues! devilish rogues!" Mrs.Lindsay now asked to see his niece, and the peer said he would send her down, after which he shook hands with her, and once more cautioned her against alluding to the arrangement into which they had entered touching the matrimonial affairs already discussed.