The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 383: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXIX FURTHER UNRAVELMENT OF THE TANGLED SKEIN Ir was about one o’clock in the afternoon of the following day that Mr. Hawkshaw arrived at Edenbridge Park. The marquis and marchioness were at home, and both were much concerned on account of the severe illness of a domestic whom they much valued. The reader will recollect a certain Mrs. Jameson, of whom mention was made at the time the marquis went to Rhavadergwy for the purpose of presenting himself to the object of his life’s love, — Lady Everton at that time, — but who had since become his wife. Mrs. Jameson had long been in her ladyship’s service. She was now exceedingly old, and was stretched upon a bed of sickness from which it was feared she would never rise again. The marquis and marchioness were, however, employing all . available human means to restore her. The surgeon, who had been called in from the town of Edenbridge, had advised that a consultation should take place with some eminent London physician, and the marquis had left it to the medical attendant to use his own discretion in respect to the prac- titioner whose aid was to be thus invoked. It happened that the Edenbridge surgeon was well acquainted with Doctor Ferney, to whom he accordingly sent a pressing letter beseeching him to come down to the Park. Ferney — though making it a general rule not to visit patients at any considerable distance from London — did not consider him- self very well able to refuse compliance with so urgent an appeal, and he accordingly set off for the Park. He had not been many minutes at the mansion when Mr. Hawkshaw, arriving by the next train from London, likewise reached his destination. Lhe Edenbridge surgeon and Doctor Ferney were consult- 366 CONNIE OO KS (E(0)