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the whole of January 1852, Mr. Groves had very severe attacks of pain, and from this time his health rapidly declined. At first the most acute pains were in the night; afterwards they varied as to time and severity, and he became very thin. Still his wonderful powers of rallying, when the pain went off, made his friends hope that there was no cause for alarm.

On the 26th of February he quitted Chittoor with his wife for Mysore. He suffered much on the journey, and, soon after this, it being decided that his daughter-in-law, who went first with Mrs. Groves to the Hills, needed a further change and was not well enough to go home alone, his friends urged his accompanying her; a return to England being recommended for him also; and his wife, with all who loved him, desired to see what