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Having placed Arthur under the restraining care of Lord Meersbrook, assured the reader that he fulfilled his promise to Sally Bragley, and rewarded her husband as sailors are accustomed to deal recompense, we must now return to Paris. The information given by Count Riccardini, in the first place, made every one anxious to lose not an hour in setting out for England. French roads are not English roads, nor French travelling English travelling; and, on reaching the coast, such was the state of the Channel, that three more days passed before they ventured to cross. Riccardini was not very sanguine with regard to Lady Anne, and the remarks he made on the subject were of a nature to make them prepared for the worst, since he maintained the probability of the weather having a fatal effect on a patient of her description. Their passage was rough and dangerous, though not very long; but they were all rendered so