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Poor Phoebe , she did not so much as know what her own way was ! She had never so much wished for her _ wise _ guardian , but in the meantime the only wisdom she could see was to wait patiently , and embrace whatever proposal would seem best for the others , though with little hope that any would not entail pain and separation from those who could spare her as ill as she could spare them . Dr. Martyn was to come over in the course of the ensuing day to examine Bertha , and give her guardian his opinion of her state . There was little danger of its being favourable to violent changes , for Augusta made a descent on the school-room after dinner , and the morbid agitation thus occasioned obliged Miss Fennimore to sit up with the patient till one o'clock . In the morning the languor was extreme , and the cough so frequent that the fear for the lungs was in the ascendant . But Augusta , knowing of all this , believed her visit to have been most important , and immediately after breakfast summoned Robert to a conference , that he might be convinced that there must be no delay in taking measures for breaking up the present system . ` We must hear what Dr. Martyn says . '