I will therefore provide pillions for the horses, so that the whole party can be accommodated." He then sat down and wrote out minute instructions for Amabel's treatment, and delivering the paper to Leonard, desired him to give it to the housekeeper at Ashdown Park.
"Heaven only knows what the result of all this may be!" he exclaimed.
"But nothing must be neglected." Leonard promised that his advice should be scrupulously attended to; and the discourse then turning to Nizza's father, she expressed the utmost anxiety to see him before she set out.
Hodges readily assented.

"Your father has been discharged as cured from the pest-house," he said, "and is lodged at a cottage, kept by my old nurse, Dame Lucas, just without the walls, near Moorgate.

I will send for him." "On no account," replied Nizza.

"I will go to him myself." "As you please," returned Hodges.

"Leonard shall accompany you.