The fever had set in,
and the young patient was lying in great danger, as most of the laggards
at Baden knew, when his friends there were set at ease by this fallacious
bulletin. On the third day after the accident, Lady Walham arrived with
her younger son, to find Lord Kew in the fever which ensued after the
wound. As the terrible anxiety during the illness had been Lady Walham's,
so was hers the delight of the recovery. The commander-in-chief of the
family, the old lady at Baden, showed her sympathy by sending couriers,
and repeatedly issuing orders to have news of Kew. Sick-beds scared her
away invariably. When illness befell a member of her family she hastily
retreated from before the sufferer, showing her agitation of mind,
however, by excessive ill-humour to all the others within her reach.
A fortnight passed, a ball had been found and extracted, the fever was
over, the wound was progressing favourably, the patient advancing towards
convalescence, and the mother, with her child once more under her wing,
happier than she had been for seven years past, during which her young
prodigal had been running the thoughtless career of which he himself was
weary, and which had occasioned the fond lady such anguish.
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