be strong all at once, especially with such trying weather; one week at Paris will set me up completely."
"Does the physician say you must go there? have you see him to-day?"
These words were uttered with such deep interest, such sincere pity, that, few as they were, they awoke in Lady Anne's mind a train of thought, on which she instantly acted. Fixing her eyes on those glittering with kindly drops of compassion for her altered appearance, she said in a low serious voice—
"Count, I have no physician, nor do I mean to have one. I paid more to those medical men at Brighton than is satisfactory to my conscience on reflection; but, as I took care of the prescription, I get my drugs from the chymists, and make them up at home."
"Oh! that will never do; what is right at one time, is no right at another. I am great nurse. I know all the steps which take the complaint; you must have doctare."
"Doctors must have fees, Count. Rotheles said, 'you must go home, Anne, you must have advice,' but he omitted the purse of sovereigns, which might have purchased the advice."
"It was pity, great pity, but the rich man do not know the want, so he no think, he is not bad, but
