"I fear I took your exhortations too much to heart, and overworked myself in the good cause." "A season is always an exhausting thing," said Lady Mary; "and I dare say London is very hot now." "Hot! It's more than hot.

It is a solemn warning to evil-doers; a foretaste of a future state." "I suppose everybody has left town by this time ?" continued Lady Mary, who often found it necessary even now to ignore parts of her nephew's conversation.
"By everybody I know you mean _one_ family.

Yes, they are gone.

Left London to-day.

Consequently, I also conveyed my remains out of town, feeling that I had done my duty." "Where is Ralph ?" asked Evelyn, rising, dimly conscious that Charles and his aunt were conversing in an unknown tongue, and feeling herself _de trop_.
"I left him in the shrubbery.