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A chill to counterbalance all the glowing pro No sooner had he followed the timber-merchant in at

the door than he heard Grammer inform him that Mrs Fitzpiers was still

Old Dr Jones being in

the neighborhood they had called hiet her to bed They were not, however, to consider her

illness serious--a feverish, nervous attack the result of recent

events, hat she was suffering from, and she would doubtless be

well in a few days

Winterborne, therefore, did not re was disappointed Even this aggravation of her reatly depress Melbury He knew, he said, that his

daughter's constitution was sound enough It was only these do her down Once free she would be bloohtly, as parents usually do

He set out for London the nextpaid another visit

and assured hiht leave home without uneasiness, especially

on an errand of that sort, which would the sooner put an end to her

suspense

The timber-merchant had been away only a day or then it was told in