# The Cornhill Magazine (Vol. IV, No. 2, August 1861)

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75623

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## Summary

Never, General Baynes afterwards declared, did fever come and go so pleasantly as that attack to which we have seen the Mrs. General advert in her letter to her sister, Mrs. Major MacWhirter. The cold fit was merely a lively, pleasant chatter and rattle of the teeth; the hot fit an agreeable warmth; and though the ensuing sleep, with which I believe such aguish attacks are usually concluded, was enlivened by several dreams of death, demons, and torture, how felicitous it was to wake and find that dreadful thought of ruin removed which had always, for the last few months, ever since Dr. Firmin’s flight and the knowledge of his own imprudence, pursued the good-natured gentleman! What! this...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/7/index.md)
- [did. But these were women for the most part; and women become so absurdly](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-iv-no-2-august-1861-75623/chapters/4/index.md)