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Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall14. CHAPTER XIV (continued)'At any rate,' said my mother, 'you will call to-morrow. Whether it be true or false, exaggerated or otherwise, we shall like to know how he is.' 'Fergus may go.' 'Why not you?' 'He has more time. I am busy just now.' 'Oh! but, Gilbert, how can you be so composed about it? You won't mind business for an hour or two in a case of this sort, when your friend is at the point of death.' 'He is not, I tell you.' 'For anything you know, he may be: you can't tell till you have seen him. At all events, he must have met with some terrible accident, and you ought to see him: he'll take it very unkind if you don't.' 'Confound it! I can't. He and I have not been on good terms of late.' 'Oh, my dear boy! Surely, surely you are not so unforgiving as to carry your little differences to such a length as - ' 'Little differences, indeed!' I muttered. 'Well, but only remember the occasion. Think how - ' 'Well, well, don't bother me now - I'll see about it,' I replied. And my seeing about it was to send Fergus next morning, with my mother's compliments, to make the requisite inquiries; for, of course, my going was out of the question - or sending a message either. He brought back intelligence that the young squire was laid up with the complicated evils of a broken head and certain contusions (occasioned by a fall - of which he did not trouble himself to relate the particulars - and the subsequent misconduct of his horse), and a severe cold, the consequence of lying on the wet ground in the rain; but there were no broken bones, and no immediate prospects of dissolution. This is page 118 of 479. [Marked] This title is on Your Bookshelf. Buy a copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at Amazon.com
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