While she slept, he tried to read Cooper’s Grammatica, but he had difficulty focusing on the page in front of him. He couldn’t believe how rapidly her health had taken a turn for the worse. One day she’d been glowing and happy, and the next... He was no doctor, but he’d lay odds she’d taken a chi...
—Robert Southey Later than morning, Lina walked over to Malton to see how the stonemason was getting on with Edward’s monument. It was a melancholy errand, and strictly speaking it wasn’t proper for her to venture out while still in deep mourning, but it eased her mind to view the progress Mr. Mo...