Diana Tempest, Volume III by Mary Cholmondeley

"Et souvent au moment ou l'on croyait tenir Une esperance, on voit que c'est un souvenir. " VICTOR HUGO.

When Colonel Tempest lay in a precarious condition owing to the unexpected explosion of a revolver which he was taking to his gun-maker, and which he believed to be unloaded -- when this fatality occurred, Mrs. Courtenay somewhat relaxed the stringency of her usual demeanour to him, and allowed his daughter to be with him constantly in the hospital to which he was first conveyed, and afterwards in his rooms in Brook Street when he was sufficiently convalescent to be conveyed thither.