In the eyes, however, of the invidious world, he was uncommonly like his plain sickly father, and not, with that exception, at all distinguished from other children.
John made haste to send Valentine off to the junction, undertook himself to drive his father over to see Emily, and gathered from the short account Valentine gave whilst the horse was put too, that Fred Walker had been taken ill during the night with a fainting fit.

He had come from India for his year's leave in a very poor state of health, and with apprehended heart disease.

Only ten days previously Emily had persuaded him that it would be well to go to London for advice.

But a fainting fit had taken place, and the medical man called in had forbidden this journey for the present.

He had appeared to recover, so that there seemed to be no more ground for uneasiness than usual; but this second faintness had lasted long enough to terrify all those about him.
Grand was very fond of his late brother's stepdaughter; she had always been his favourite, partly on account of her confiding ease and liking for him, partly because of the fervent religiousness that she had shown from a child.
The most joyous and gladsome natures are often most keenly alive to impressions of reverence, and wonder, and awe.