"
"Is he very bad?"
"No," says Dr. Finck, "he is not very bad."
"How inconsolable M. Barnes will be!" said the Duchesse, shrugging her
haggard shoulders. Whereas the fact was that Mr. Barnes retained perfect
presence of mind under both of the misfortunes which had befallen his
family. Two days afterwards the Duchesse's husband arrived himself, when
we may presume that exemplary woman was too much engaged with her own
affairs to be able to be interested about the doings of other people.
With the Duke's arrival the court of Mary Queen of Scots was broken up.
Her Majesty was conducted to Lochleven, where her tyrant soon dismissed
her very last lady-in-waiting, the confidential Irish secretary, whose
performance had produced such a fine effect amongst the Newcomes.
Had poor Sir Brian Newcome's seizure occurred at an earlier period of the
autumn, his illness no doubt would have kept him for some months confined
at Baden; but as he was pretty nearly the last of Dr. Von Finck's bath
patients, and that eminent physician longed to be off to the Residenz, he
was pronounced in a fit condition for easy travelling in rather a brief
period after his attack, and it was determined to transport him to
Mannheim, and thence by water to London and Newcome.
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