Evelyn "your mamma" when he wished to be
particularly authoritative with his young gentlemen. If they were
especially troublesome he called her "your ma."
"And after all," said the doctor, "I don't know what sort of
preparations the young gentlemen would make if we let them go by
themselves. A bare room, perhaps-—with no bed-clothes, and nothing
to eat till the table d'hote"
Reeves smiled. He had found the doctor much less of a rival than he
had expected, and he was a kind-hearted man, so long as his young
lord was made the first object; so he declared his willingness to do
anything that lay in his power for the assistance of the poor lady
and her sons. He would gladly sit up with them, if it were in the
same house with his lordship.
No one came out to meet the party. John was found with Armine, who
had been taken back at night to his own room; Mrs. Brownlow, as
usual, with Jock, who would endure no presence but hers, and looked
exceedingly injured when, sending Cecil in to sit with him, the
doctor called her out of the room.
It was a sore stroke on her to hear that her charges must be
separated; and there was the harrowing question whether she should
stay with one or go with the other.
"Please, decide," she said.
"I think you should be with the most serious case.
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