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An obsolete chambermaid had been already installed as nurse. Little Mrs. Esterbroke, the housekeeper, was fussing hither and thither about the room noiselessly. So this gay, astute man of fashion had fallen into the dungeon of sudden darkness, and the custody of old women; and lay helpless in the stocks, awaiting the judgment of Buddle.
'Very great danger. Miss Brandon looked down, and then, with a pale gaze suddenly in Chelford's face 'He thinks he may die? said she. 'Yes, said Lord Chelford, in a very low tone, returning her gaze solemnly. 'And nobody to advise but that village doctor, Buddle that's hardly credible, I think. 'Pardon me.
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.
Meanwhile, in the Blackberry Dell, Doctor Buddle was assisting at a different sort of inquisition.
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.
Oh, that the prophet Buddle were here, to end my tremendous suspense, and to announce a reprieve from Heaven.
'Oh, yes, my little man has had two or three attacks much more serious than this, and always shook them off so easily, I was reminding Dolly, always, and good Doctor Buddle assures us it is none of those horrid complaints.
The little colour he had receded from the vicar's face, for the looks and tones of good-natured Buddle were not to be mistaken. He was reading little Fairy's death warrant. 'I see, doctor I see; you think he'll die, said the vicar, staring at him. 'Oh doctor, my little Fairy!
Bracton's outrage was the cause of the entire thing and so help him Heaven, so soon as he should be on his legs again, he would make him feel it, one way or other. Buddle thought he was in so highly excited a state, that his brain must have sustained some injury also. So Buddle told him all that was yet known, and he listened very attentively.
Much to-ing and fro-ing there was between the town and Redman's Farm, the respectable inhabitants all sending or going up to enquire how the captain was doing. At last Doctor Buddle officially interfered. The constant bustle was injurious to his patient. An hourly bulletin up to twelve o'clock should be in the hall of the 'Brandon Arms; and Redman's Dell grew quiet once more.
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