The lad was quiet now from the complete exhaustion of his strength.

He might rally or he might not; his leg was going on favorably.

No bad symptom had set in, and it was now purely a question of strength and constitution whether he would pull through it.
Mrs.Sankey had been kept in entire ignorance of the whole matter.

She had once or twice expressed a languid surprise at Ned's altered manner and extreme quietness; but her interest was not sufficient for her to inquire whether there were any reasons for this change.

Abijah had been taken into Captain Sankey's counsels, and as soon as the fever had abated, and the doctor pronounced that the most nourishing food was now requisite, she set to work to prepare the strongest broths and jellies she could make, and these, with bottles of port wine, were taken by her every evening to the doctor, who carried them up in his gig on his visits to his patient in the morning.