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"Prayto her

her arry with Wrench, and did not

care if he never cao on nohether Wrench liked it or not It was no joke to have fever in the

house Everybody must be sent to now, not to coet up any wine: brandy was the best

thing against infection "I shall drink brandy," added Mr Vincy,

emphatically--as

with blank-cartridges "He's an uncommonly unfortunate lad, is Fred

He'd need have--some luck by-and-by to make up for all this--else I

don't knoho'd have an eldest son"

"Don't say so, Vincy," said thelip, "if you

don't want him to be taken from me"

"It orret you to death, Lucy; _that_ I can see," said Mr Vincy,

more mildly "However, Wrench shall knohat I think of the ht confusedly was, that the fever ht somehow

have been hindered if Wrench had shown the proper solicitude about

his--the Mayor's--faive in to the cry