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Rh, and he was never weary of praising the admirable conduct of Isabella, at the same time turning round in his own mind how he might best break to him the circumstance which had in truth given the shock which occasioned her illness. He greatly feared the excitability of Glentworth's system, and dreaded that he might be induced to set out again in some long, wild journey in search of Lady Osmond, who he found, on inquiry, had left Pisa for Marseilles, where she expected to meet her husband, only two days after she had seen Isabella in the Campo Santo. Under these circumstances, both Mary and himself were much inclined to consider that the youngest person had judged the best, and that any thing which could by possibility occasion a relapse to that state of distressing irritability and depression from which he had successfully emerged, ought not to be ventured upon. The doctor had never heard him refer to any relationship with this lady or any other; there could be no doubt that, whatever might have been the yearnings of his heart in days past, he no longer required them now, being happy in the strongest and tenderest ties. It was, therefore, after various consultations, agreed to leave for the present their peace unbroken by retrospection or acquisition, and a few days afterwards the worthy physician departed, reiterating his promise of some