When he is in his best health he can only limp a hundred yards in a day.

Yet he never says a cross word.

The sight of him spreads good humour over the face of every one who comes near him.

His sister, an excellent old maid as ever lived, and the favourite of all the young people of her acquaintance, says that it is quite a pleasure to nurse him.

She was reading the "Inheritance" to him as he lay in bed, and he enjoyed it amazingly.