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26 REYNOLDS’ WORKS ‘‘T have, and I am grieved to say that he is not so well as I had hoped and expected to find him. He has passed a good night, but it has not rendered him the benefit which might have been anticipated.”’ ‘““ Doubtless he feels the bruises more to-day,’ said Lady Macdonald, “‘ than he even did yesterday. It is always the case, and persons in our sphere of life,’ she added, using her favourite expression, “‘ are more tender and delicate than the lower orders, who think nothing of common acci- dents.”’ | ‘Ts your brother acquainted with the horrible tragedy the intelligence of which has just reached us?’ asked Lady Saxondale, again addressing herself to Florina. ‘“ T thought it better to tell him of it,’’ she replied. ‘‘ An invalid is always more or less nervous; and I was fearful that he might feel the shock, if the tidings were too abruptly communicated. For, oh! there is something truly horrible in the reflection that while we were all seated together in the drawing-room last evening, and Harold was slumber- ing profoundly in his couch, such a terrific crime was being accomplished within two or three miles of the castle, and we utterly unsuspicious of the occurrence! ”’ “Tt is indeed very terrible — very shocking,’ observed Lady Saxondale. ‘ It quite makes one shudder.” Gomicbooks. com