TWO:"Oh, what is it?��what is it?" wailed Naomi��"can't we do anything? Oh, why doesn't the doctor come?"
TWO:Edith entered the cottage, her hand resting for support upon the shoulder of her son��for she was feeble, though not so much from age as from a weak constitution. As she stepped over the threshold she devoutly crossed herself; and when they stood upon the earthen floor, she withdrew her left hand from the arm that supported her, and, sinking upon her knees, and raising up her eyes, exclaimed��
TWO:Sir Ralph had never married and there was no direct heir; Anne was about as likely to produce offspring as a Latin grammar, and the property went to a distant cousin, Eustace Fleet. The very name of Bardon was now extinct. For two hundred years it had been coupled with Flightshot and Whig politics and the idea of a gentleman, till the last had finally been the downfall of the other two. The race of Bardon had died of its own virtues.Chapter 2
TWO:"Rose��you know��how can you?��that's worse than alone, surelye!"The Tories were not to be beaten in invective, and posted Rye with enquiries after the Rabid Hybrid or Crazy Captain: