I hope they are quite well.

Good old Mrs.
Bates--I will call upon her to-morrow, and take my children .-- They are always so pleased to see my children .-- And that excellent Miss Bates!--such thorough worthy people!--How are they, sir ?" "Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole.

But poor Mrs.Bates had a bad cold about a month ago." "How sorry I am! But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn.

Mr.Wingfield told me that he has never known them more general or heavy--except when it has been quite an influenza." "That has been a good deal the case, my dear; but not to the degree you mention.

Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November.