I sent a special messenger for the great man.

He arrived on the evening of the 21st, and confirmed my opinion that pneumonia had set in, and that our patient's life was in danger.

I told him what my treatment of the case had been, and he approved of it in every particular.

He made some valuable suggestions, and (at Lady Montbarry's express request) he consented to defer his return to Padua until the following morning.
'"We both saw the patient at intervals in the course of the night.

The disease, steadily advancing, set our utmost resistance at defiance.