igo LIFE OF MYTTON. 



His mind soon experienced the benefit of tliis 

 wholesome change ; but the irritation from the burn- 

 ing brought his hfe into peril. In fact, Dr. Souville 

 told me he did not expect him to live, apprehending 

 typhus would ensue ; and, as an old Warwickshire 

 brother sportsman ''' who saw him, said of him, " No 

 other man but Mytton would have survived." He 

 would faint on being moved from his bed to his 

 chair, and he had every symptom of sinking nature. 

 Under these circumstances I had a duty to perform 

 which I did not shrink from ; but never should I 

 have dreamt of making public the result, were it not 

 that I consider it honourable to the man, and it can- 

 not fail of being satisfactory to his friends. Sitting 

 opposite to him, then, by the fireside, I thus, in pain, 

 addressed him. " I think it right to tell you, your 

 life is in danger ; I know you too well not to be con- 

 vinced that you will not scoft' at what I am going to 

 suggest. Would you like to see our clergyman, 

 Mr. Liptrot ? He is a liberal-minded, worthy man, 

 without an atom of humbug about him." "Draw 

 your chair by the side of me," said Mytton. On my 

 placing it on his right, he requested me to place it on 



Mr. Henry Wyatt. 



