Blyth. The assurance
so given, accompanied as it was by the announcement that Valentine was
about to form his own judgment of Mr. Marksman by visiting the house in
Kirk Street that very night, seemed to quiet and satisfy Mrs. Thorpe.
Her last hopes for her son's future, now that she was forced to admit
the sad necessity of conniving at his continued absence from home,
rested one and all on Mr. Blyth alone.
This first difficulty smoothed over, Zack asked with no little
apprehension and anxiety, whether his father's anger showed any
symptoms of subsiding as yet. The question was an unfortunate one. Mrs.
Thorpe's eyes began to fill with tears again, the moment she heard it.
The news she had now to tell her son, in answering his inquiries, was
of a very melancholy and a very hopeless kind.
The attack of palpitations in the heart which had seized Mr. Thorpe on
the day of his son's flight from Baregrove Square, had been immediately
and successfully relieved by the medical remedies employed; but it had
been followed, within the last day or two, by a terrible depression of
spirits, under which the patient seemed to have given way entirely, and
for which the doctor was unable to suggest any speedy process of cure.
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