'
'Poor little Agnes!' exclaimed Lily. 'Why, she was at school
yesterday.'
'Yes, Miss, but she was taken bad last night.'
After a moment's consultation between the sisters, Kezia was told
that she might return home, and the servant who accompanied the Miss
Mohuns was sent to Raynham for the doctor. The next afternoon Lily
was just setting out to inquire for Agnes when Lord Rotherwood
arrived at the New Court with his sister. He wanted to show Florence
some of his favourite haunts at Beechcroft, and had brought her to
join his cousins in their walk. A very pleasant expedition they
made, but it led them so far from home that the church bell was heard
pealing over the woods far in the distance. Lily could not go to
Mrs. Eden's cottage, because she did not know the nature of Agnes's
complaint, and her aunt could not bear that Florence should go into
any house where there was illness. In the course of the walk,
however, she met Kezia, on her way to the New Court, to ask for a
blister for Agnes, the doctor having advised Mrs. Eden to apply to
the Miss Mohuns for one, as it was wanted quickly, and it was too far
to send to Raynham. Lily promised to send the blister as soon as
possible, and desired the little messenger to return home, where she
was much wanted, to help her mother, who had a baby of less than a
week old.
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