When that fever broke out at Doctor Ashton's--you heard us talking of it last night, Carr--I went to the Rectory just as usual.

What did I care for fever ?--it was not likely to attack me.

But the countess-dowager found it out--" "Why do they stay here so long ?" interrupted Thomas Carr.

"They have been here ever since your brother died." "And before it.

The old woman likes her quarters, and has no settled home.