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Lord Chelford, too, having looked on Lake with silent, but awful misgivings, longed for the arrival of the doctor; and was listening and silent when Buddle's short step and short respiration were heard in the passage. So Larcom came to the door to announce the doctor in a whisper, and Buddle fussed into the room, and made his bow to Lord Chelford, and his brief compliments and condolences.
'A bloodthirsty rascal that Bracton, muttered the major. The expenses were likely to be awful, and some allowance was to be made for his state of mind. He was under Doctor Buddle's porch, and made a flimsy rattle with his thin brass knocker. 'Maybe he has returned? He did not believe it, though. Major Jackson was very nervous, indeed.
So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some sea people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the White Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to Huntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing to have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was the business I went about.
A haemorrhage, perhaps, a sudden shivering, and inflammation a sinking, maybe, or delirium some awful change, probably for Buddle did not return. Old Major Jackson heard of it, in his early walk, at Buddle's door. He had begun to grow more hopeful.
We were not far from Redman's Farm, and it was agreed, on hasty consultation, that our best course would be to carry Lake thither at once by the footpath, and that one of us Wealdon undertook this should drive the carriage on, and apprising Rachel on the way of the accident which had happened, and that her brother was on his way thither, should drive on to Buddle's house, sending assistance to us from the town.
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