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"Thank you, , "I've been very well; but I was

much upset to hear of your lordship's accident, and very sorry you

wouldn't let ret, for he was attached to

Drake, and was fully convinced that he had the best, the handsoland

"Thanks; veryto speak of, and

there was no reason for dragging you down there There wasn't any

accommodation, to tell the truth, and you'd havevery well,respectfully

Drake sighed at the na&iuhed unaccountably

"Oh, I've done so," he said, "and I'm

pretty fit--fitter than I've been for some time There's an awful pile

of letters, I see"

"Yes, my lord; you told me not to send theht?"

Drake replied in the affired, and sat down

to one of the daintily prepared dinners which were the envy and despair

of his bachelor friends It was really an admirable little dinner; the

claret was a falemere cellars, and war's

to be desired; and yet Drake sank into his easy-chair after the h that eary and wistful