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"Are you sure, quite sure, you do not feel faint? I knohat it is to

rise from a sick bed for the first tis perfectly"

"Not at all--not at all; I mean that I', quite"

"Let é," said Mrs Lorton, as persuaded

that she had hit upon a French word for "arranged" "Then I will get you

some beef tea I have made it with my own hands"

"It's to be hoped not!" said Dick devoutly, as she fluttered out

"Molly's beef tea is bad enough; but maht s it,but put it underof consuht; I'll take it upstairs again," said Dick cheerfully But he

e There was the sound of a thud, a clear, low

voice expostulating, and a girl's footstep on the stairs, as Nell,

s her hair, carried up the pillow

When she came down Mrs Lorton met her

"Get some salt, Eleanor, and take it in to Mr Vernon And please say,

if he should ask forhim some calf's-foot jelly"

Nell took in the salt Mr Vernon rose from the sofa on which he had

seated hiretful air