You may imagine the completely demoralised?
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state I was in, when I tell you of the effect which the news of the robbery produced on me.

I fell back on my pillow, as if I had been shot.

Your Ladyship should really be a little more careful in communicating these disagreeable surprises to a sensitively-organised man.

Never mind--my valet is a perfect treasure; he brought me some drops of ether on a lump of sugar.

I said, 'Alfred' (his name is Alfred), 'put me into my clothes!' Alfred put me in.