Mr.Huntingdon is very ill, but not dying, or in any immediate danger; and he is rather better at present than he was when I came.

I found the house in sad confusion: Mrs.Greaves, Benson, every decent servant had left, and those that were come to supply their places were a negligent, disorderly set, to say no worse--I must change them again, if I stay.

A professional nurse, a grim, hard old woman, had been hired to attend the wretched invalid.

He suffers much, and has no fortitude to bear him through.

The immediate injuries he sustained from the accident, however, were not very severe, and would, as the doctor says, have been but trifling to a man of temperate habits, but with him it is very different.