We all drank the toast, and all shook hands with Mr. Jack Maldon;
after which he hastily took leave of the ladies who were there, and
hurried to the door, where he was received, as he got into the chaise,
with a tremendous broadside of cheers discharged by our boys, who had
assembled on the lawn for the purpose. Running buy anabolics steroids online in among them to swell
the ranks, I was very near the chaise when it rolled away; and I had a
lively impression made upon me, in the midst of the noise and dust, of
having seen Mr. Jack Maldon rattle past with an agitated face, and
something cherry-coloured in his hand.
After another broadside for the Doctor, and another for the
Doctor's wife, the boys dispersed, and I went back into the house, where
I found the guests all standing in a group about the Doctor, discussing
how Mr. Jack Maldon had gone away, and how he had borne it, and how he
had felt it, and all the rest of it. In the midst of these remarks,
Mrs. Markleham cried: 'Where's Annie?'
No Annie was there; and when they called to her, no Annie replied.
But all pressing out of the room, in a crowd, to see what was the
matter, we found her lying on the hall floor. There was great alarm at
first, until it was found that she was in a swoon, and that the swoon
was yielding to the usual means of recovery; when the Doctor, who had
lifted her head upon his knee, put her curls aside with his hand, and
said, looking around.
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