CHAPTER IX.
THE SONG AND THE DIRGE.
The concert was to take place on Thursday, and on the following Saturday Lord Mount Severn intended finally to quit East Lynne.

The necessary preparations for departure were in progress, but when Thursday morning dawned, it appeared a question whether they would not once more be rendered nugatory.

The house was roused betimes, and Mr.Wainwright, the surgeon from West Lynne, summoned to the earl's bedside; he had experienced another and a violent attack.

The peer was exceedingly annoyed and vexed, and very irritable.
"I may be kept here a week--a month--a fortnight--a month longer, now!" he uttered fretfully to Isabel.
"I am very sorry, papa.

I dare say you do find East Lynne dull." "Dull! That's not it; I have other reasons for wishing East Lynne to be quit of us.