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'Of course. The day of reckoning must come. But in the meantime have you
no delicacy? Do you want to be pointed at everywhere?'
'All I know is that I am very ill,' answered her husband, 'and that this
wretched journey has made me twenty years older.'
'We shall be safe at home before noon to-morrow, and you can have Horton
to set you right again. You know you always believed in his skill.'
'Horton is a clever fellow enough, as country doctors go; but at
Hastings I could have had the best physicians in London to see me,'
grumbled his lordship.
The rustic maid-servant came in to lay the table, assisted by her
ladyship's footman, who looked a good deal too tall for the room.
'I shan't dine,' said the Earl. 'I am a great deal too ill and cold.
Light a fire in my room, girl, and send Steadman to me'--this to the
footman, who hastened to obey. 'You can send me up a basin of soup
presently. I shall go to bed at once.'
He left the room without another word to his wife, who sat by the hearth
staring thoughtfully at the cheery wood fire.


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