The consequence had been that his health had been broken down, and he was now tottering to an early grave.
Cuthbert Norman was found to be so ill when the day first named for Linda's marriage approached, that it had been thought absolutely necessary to postpone the ceremony.

What amount of consolation Mrs.Woodward might have received from the knowledge that her daughter, by this young man's decease, would become Mrs.
Norman of Normansgrove, we need not inquire; but such consolation, if it existed at all, did not tend to dispel the feeling of sombre disappointment which such delay was sure to produce.

The heir, however, rallied, and another day, early in August, was fixed.
Katie, the while, was still an invalid; and, as such, puzzled all the experience of that very experienced medical gentleman, who has the best aristocratic practice in the neighbourhood of Hampton Court.

He, and the London physician, agreed that her lungs were not affected; but yet she would not get well.

The colour would not come to her cheeks, the flesh would not return to her arms, nor the spirit of olden days shine forth in her eyes.