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Dr. Hayward's report of Mr. and Mrs. Warden's health was far from satisfactory. "The lady," he said, in reply to Lord Hardcastle's enquiries, was undoubtedly suffering from smallpox, which in her weak state of health, had taken strong hold of her. As to Mr. Warden, he could not be sure; he feared some disease was latent in his system; he was altogether below par, and the anxiety and grief he had gone through had completely undermined his constitution --
"Do what you can for them, while you can, my dear, young friend," he added (he had known Hardcastle from his boyhood), "and spare them, as far as possible, the details of this sad business."