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Grace recognized her husband in the speaker at once. Her effort was now to disguise her own accents. "Doctor," she said, in as unusual a tone as she could command, "a man is dangerously ill in One-chimney Hut, out towards Delborough, and you must go to him at once in all mercy!" "I will, readily." The alacrity, surprise, and pleasure expressed in his reply amazed her for a moment.
He therefore refrained from calling up a stableman to get ready any horse or gig, and set out for One-chimney Hut on foot, as Grace had done. She re-entered the hut, flung off her bonnet and cloak, and approached the sufferer. He had begun anew those terrible mutterings, and his hands were cold.
If this, his first summons since his return, had been to attend upon a cat or dog, he would scarcely have refused it in the circumstances. "Do you know the way?" she asked. "Yes," said he. "One-chimney Hut," she repeated. "And immediately!" "Yes, yes," said Fitzpiers. Grace remained no longer. She passed out of the white gate without slamming it, and hastened on her way back.
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