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Rh symptoms, she might be enabled, at a moment's notice, to return to her house in London.

This being decided upon, the General, accompanied by Oriana, set off for his home.

Scarcely, however, had a few days elapsed since he had parted from his sister, than, in concurrence with the agreement he had made with her, she wrote to inform him that herself and Mr. Arden were about leaving the country immediately, to be near her father, having received fresh intelligence with respect to the increase of his malady, and of a nature to create much apprehensions for his safety.

Deeply participating in the uneasiness of his sister, the General on his part lost no time in repairing to town. His presence might not be desired, yet the feelings of a son, duty—indispensable obligations he conceived attached to the filial tie—claimed his doing so, in order to pay his father the respect due to his suffering situation.

Establishing himself in small lodgings contiguous to his father's abode, he determined there to await the issue of his indisposition, which, from the accounts he gathered, he found to be in no way diminished.

Finding that, through the medium of his sister, Sir Aubrey had been apprized of his being in town,