"It is the very thing I want—the very thing to do me good."
"If you may have any wine, it is; but we must ask the medical men's leave in your predicament—nothing can be done without them. As you value your life, Lady Anne, as you value your noble daughter, and your rich daughter, to whom you may look for years of enjoyment, avoid all quacks and quackeries, stick to the very clever man you have wisely selected, and do just what he bids you."
The solemnity of Mr. Palmer's adjuration, the recollection of the many pleasures, and the unquestionable importance of the houses in question, together with the certainty that the mistresses of them would be entirely under her command, rose before her in the most striking point of view; she therefore gave Mr. Palmer a positive promise to comply with his request by recalling the physician, whom she had not seen for four days, and obeying him literally; but she added, very earnestly, "do not delay sending for the old hock, as we are sure somebody can drink it, at all events."
Mr. Palmer cast his eyes on Helen, and thought to himself somebody ought to have it, and shall have a little; and he inquired if she might not step home with him, and tell Mrs. P. what her ladyship had been talking about, "for his memory was very leaky."
