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'I believe I do, Ida, replied Lady Palliser, gravely. 'I feel that I am below par, and that I really want sea air. What should you think of our going to Bournemouth directly after the funeral? 'The funeral! murmured Ida, pale as death. 'Yes, dear. Mr. Fosbroke has quite given up all hope, I know; and after the funeral you will want a change as badly as I do.
He grew more rational as they walked home, but talked and argued all the way with that semi-hysterical garrulity which was so painful to his hearers. They found Vernon sitting up in bed, reading 'Grimm's Goblins, and in very high spirits. A most wonderful event had happened. Cheap Jack had been to see him. He came with Mr. Fosbroke at twelve o'clock. He had overtaken Mr.
She has been sorely tried, poor soul, and needs all your love. 'She shall have it in full measure, answered Bessie. 'How grave and anxious you look! Is Brian very ill? 'Very ill. 'Dangerously? 'I am afraid so. I shall hear what Mr. Fosbroke says presently, and if his report be bad, I shall telegraph for the physician. 'Poor Brian! How strangely he talked at dinner last night!
Fosbroke, smiling down at the flushed cheek on the pillow. 'They are like those foolish little Geneva watches ladies are so fond of wearing. My old turnip never goes wrong. You must make haste and grow big, Vernon, and then mamma will not be so easily frightened about you. Vernon smiled faintly, without opening his eyes.
On the homeward road they wound near the base of Blackman's Hanger, and at this point Vernon got up and ordered the coachman to drive as near as he could to the old gamekeeper's cottage. 'We can walk the rest of the way, said the boy. 'Walk! shrieked Lady Palliser. 'Oh, Vernie, what are you dreaming about? Mr. Fosbroke never said you might walk.
'You see, you have contrived between you to make him an exotic, said the doctor; 'and you mustn't be surprised if he gives you a little trouble now and then. Orchids are beautiful flowers, but they are difficult to rear. 'Oh, Mr. Fosbroke, said Lady Palliser, 'how can you say so! Vernie is so hardy riding his pony in all weathers.
'But I believe it would be a satisfaction to Lady Palliser and to Mrs. Wendover both if you would do me the honour to consult me, and allow me to look after you while you are here, I could place myself under Dr. Mallison's instructions, if you like. 'No, there is no necessity. I tell you I know exactly what is amiss, and how to manage my own health. Mr. Fosbroke argued the point, but in vain.
He drew one of the full bottles out into the light. 'Hennessy's Fine Old Cognac, said the label. This had been the secret source of fever and delirium here had lurked the evil which had made all remedial measures vain. Mr. Fosbroke was announced while John Jardine was washing the dust and the stains of rusty iron from his hands.
According to Fosbroke, "the veneration with which the ancients viewed their places of sepulture, seems to have formed the foundation upon which they raised their boundless mythology; and, as is supposed, with some probability, introduced the belief in national and tutelary gods, as well as the practice of worshipping them through the medium of statues; for the places where their heroes were interred, when ascertained, were held especially sacred, and frequently a temple erected over their body, hallowed the spot.
Fosbroke, said Ida, speaking on the threshold of the adjoining room, to the maid who brought her letters; and, in the midst of his distraction, Brian's quick ear caught the name. 'Fosbroke me no Fosbrokes! he said. 'I will have no village apothecaries diagnosing my disease, no ignorant quack telling me how to treat myself. 'I will telegraph for Dr.
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