The doctor came and shook his head,--"a thorough prostration of strength, occasioned by some great shock on the nerves,"-- and prescribed care and quiet, and mysterious medicines, but acknowledged that the result was doubtful, very doubtful.

After his departure, Mr Benson took his Welsh grammar and tried again to master the ever-puzzling rules for the mutations of letters; but it was of no use, for his thoughts were absorbed by the life-in-death condition of the young creature, who was lately bounding and joyous.
The maid and the luggage, the car and the driver, had arrived before noon at their journey's end, and the note had been delivered.

It annoyed Mrs Bellingham exceedingly.

It was the worst of these kind of connexions, there was no calculating the consequences; they were never-ending.

All sorts of claims seemed to be established, and all sorts of people to step in to their settlement.