He is the most friendly and amenable creature in existence; and as for advice!--But nobody knows what that man's mind is, except myself.' My aunt smoothed her dress and shook her head, as if she smoothed defiance of the whole world out of the one, and shook it out of the other.
'He had a favourite sister,' said my aunt, 'a good creature, and very kind to him.

But she did what they all do--took a husband.

And HE did what they all do--made her wretched.

It had such an effect upon the mind of Mr.Dick (that's not madness, I hope!) that, combined with his fear of his brother, and his sense of his unkindness, it threw him into a fever.

That was before he came to me, but the recollection of it is oppressive to him even now.