I don't meddle any more in family matters, child: but when the Colonel's servant rode in, and said you were coming, Madam Esmond left this room, my dear, where she was sitting reading Drelincourt, and said she felt she could not see Mr.Washington.

Will you go to her ?" Harry took his friend's arm, and excusing himself to the Colonel, to whom he said he would return in a few minutes, he left the parlour in which they had assembled, and went to the upper rooms, where Madam Esmond was.
He was hastening across the corridor, and, with an averted head, passing by one especial door, which he did not like to look at, for it was that of his brother's room; but as he came to it, Madam Esmond issued from it, and folded him to her heart, and led him in.

A settee was by the bed, and a book of psalms lay on the coverlet.

All the rest of the room was exactly as George had left it.
"My poor child! How thin thou art grown--how haggard you look! Never mind.

A mother's care will make thee well again.