The Russian girl looked after Madame Stahl, and besides that, she was, as Kitty observed, on friendly terms with all the invalids who were
seriously ill, and there were many of them at the springs, and looked after them in the most natural way.
One may believe that the captain's wrath was increased to its highest point, and must have made him
seriously ill. However, he had still three bets of three, four, and five thousand dollars, respectively; and if he gained two out of these, his position would not be very bad.
"Is she
seriously ill? and have you not concealed it from her?
Only the day before she had received a telegram announcing that one of her sisters was
seriously ill. She was herself thank God, still active and strong, and she had thought it her duty to start at once for Ramsgate.
She had never been admitted before to be
seriously ill. The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.
It is to be exercised with regard to a certain visitor brought here by my nephew, a visitor whom I regret to say is now lying
seriously ill."
He had fallen
seriously ill, and his illness precluded his appearance in society, and even at business, for over a month.
The young lady is not
seriously ill, and I am a doctor.
He turned round anew, firmly convinced that he was
seriously ill. He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slightly put together; and many had a thatched roof.
"I am
seriously ill," he muttered to himself with scientific insight.
I asked Miss Tita if the old lady were
seriously ill, and she replied that she was only very tired--she had lived so very, very long.
This naturally led to some pleasant chat about sciatica, fevers, chills, lung diseases, and bronchitis; and Harris said how very awkward it would be if one of us were taken
seriously ill in the night, seeing how far away we were from a doctor.