t it was to whom her
master had been called in the dead of the night, and who had kept him
away for the best part of twenty-four hours; and she never could
understand what that "foreign young woman"--a person concerning whom
she was for a long time exceedingly voluble and bitter--could possibly
mean by running off in that scandalous way. But there were several
other things that Mrs. Jessop did not understand--for instance, why the
doctor for the next few weeks lost his appetite so completely, was so
"snappish and short," and seemed to care for nothing but the newspaper;
and she was quite scandalized when he actually spent a whole day, as
she, by dint of judiciously "pumping" Patrick, contrived to ascertain,
in attending the trial of those "horrid wretches of dynamitards," where
he heard the case, and heard the sentence of five years' penal
servitude passed upon a gray-haired man with a scar upon his cheek.

* * * * *

Laura has come home now, and the children are a great deal bigger and
even more tiresome than ever. She thinks her brother is very stupid not
to marry, and often roundly tells him so. But the Doctor takes her
suggestion very quietly; he is too old now, he says, and, besides, as
he reminds Laura, it was never "in his line."

Typographical errors silently corrected:

Chapter 1: _He hardly hardly knew_ silently corrected as _He hardly
knew_

Chapter 1: _see yon now_ silently corrected as _see you now_

Chapter 2: _indorsed this opinion_ silently corrected as _endorsed
this opinion_

Chapter 2: _he say a pale face_ silently corrected as _he saw a pale
face_

Chapter 4: _and in driving their nursery incmfwycmfwycmfwypppp driving
the unhappy nursemaid nearly mad_ silently corrected as _and in driving
the unhappy nursemaid nearly mad_

Chapter 5: _poor Gustave, He is_ silently corrected as _poor Gustave?
He is_

Chapter 5: _show me! Come!_ silently corrected as _show me! Come!"_

Chapter 5: _I did?_ silently corrected as _I did._

Chapter 6: _in another momen the door_ replaced by _in another moment
the door_

Chapter 6: _absolutely, unfurnished_ silently corrected as _absolutely
unfurnished_

Chapter 7: _What is this?"_ silently corrected as _What is this?_

Chapter 8: _well-knows English_ silently corrected as _well-known
English_

Chapter 8: _was vacant too."_ Silently corrected as _was vacant too._

Chapter 8: _He went all_ silentl