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In the hope of his recovery, and of resort to this third course

being thereby rendered practicable, Mr. Lorry resolved to watch

him attentively, with as little appearance as possible of doing

so. He therefore made arrangements to absent himself from

Tellson's for the first time in his life, and took his post by

the window in the same room.

He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to

speak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried. He

abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to

keep himself always before him, as a silent protest against the

delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling. He remained,

therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and

expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think

of, that it was a free place.