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But in the meantime have you no delicacy ? Do you want to be pointed at everywhere ? ' ` All I know is that I am very ill , ' answered her husband , ` and that this wretched journey has made me twenty years older . ' ` We shall be safe at home before noon to-morrow , and you can have Horton to set you right again . You know you always believed in his skill . ' ` Horton is a clever fellow enough , as country doctors go ; but at Hastings I could have had the best physicians in London to see me , ' grumbled his lordship . The rustic maid-servant came in to lay the table , assisted by her ladyship 's footman , who looked a good deal too tall for the room .