Joseph Wilmot, or, The Memoirs of a Man-Servant — page 398: what you’re looking at

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- JOSEPH WILMOT; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A MAN-SERVANT. 385 L if i Mui i I \\ \\ | fi il - => = LS = = SS >= —— SSN =e] => with a more hideous, awful reality! It was not so much physical suffering as mental horror which prostrated me on that bed of sickness on which you found me at Milan. Yet even then my mind was not completely moved: it was however deeply touched—and the change has since taken place. But it was chiefly when I some months afterwards heard of your father’s death, occasioned by so fearful an accident, that the conviction struck me awfully, appallingly, stupendously, that circum. stances were changing—that right was coming uppermost—and that the day of heaven’s retribu- tion was arriving for the wrong-doers!” : Mr. Lanover stopped and sank back upon the bolster, in such a state of exhaustion that I thought the vital spirit was on the point of flitting away to the realms of eternity. I gaye him water to drink: I was hastening to the door, t20, to bid the woman speed and fetch the surgeon,—when, divining my intention he called me back. Iol tb +1 ow” LM p ae \\ hee “ No—I am past all medical aid,” he faintly murmured, and speaking with a visible effort. “It is useless for you to summon such assistance I beseech you to remain here with me for a few minutes longer—and let us continue thus alone! I have not much more to say: but still there are a few explanations I would yet give there is a boon likewise that I would ask ——”’ Lanover’s voice grew stronger as he thus spoke ; and again did he raise himself up in the couch to that posture by which he was enabled to support his head upon his hand. He then discoursed upon the past; and he mentioned many little details which have enabled me to give greater complete- ness to the particulars of that recent chapter by which the gap in my narrative was filled up. Thus, for instance, he explained his object in taking Annabel to Exeter, on that occasion when I saw her there at the door of Dobbins the haber- ECOmmcaoolks (©)