"And he'll never look anywhere else but out of the window, and scarcely have the curtains drawn." "Down with it, then, and hang Mrs.Charmond," said Mr.Fitzpiers.

"The best plan will be to wait till the evening, when it is dark, or early in the morning before he is awake, so that he doesn't see it fall, for that would terrify him worse than ever.

Keep the blind down till I come, and then I'll assure him, and show him that his trouble is over." The doctor then departed, and they waited till the evening.

When it was dusk, and the curtains drawn, Winterborne directed a couple of woodmen to bring a crosscut-saw, and the tall, threatening tree was soon nearly off at its base.

He would not fell it completely then, on account of the possible crash, but next morning, before South was awake, they went and lowered it cautiously, in a direction away from the cottage.