Of course in his condition a relapse would be fatal; but there is no occasion to apprehend a relapse." "Thank heaven for that! And you will take care of him, Mr.Fenton, will you not ?" "I will do my very best.

He saved my life once; so you see that I owe him a life." The invalid was conveyed to Hampton on a bright February day, when there was an agreeable glimpse of spring sunshine.

He went down by road in a hired brougham, and the journey seemed a long one; but it was an unspeakable relief to John Saltram to see the suburban roads and green fields after the long imprisonment of the Temple,--a relief that moved him almost to tears in his extreme weakness.
"Could you believe that a man would be so childish, Gilbert ?" he said apologetically.

"It might have been a good thing for me to have died in that dismal room, for heaven only knows what heavy sorrow lies before me in the future.

Yet the eight of these common things touches me more keenly than all the glory of the Jungfrau touched me ten years ago.