The nobleman was not wounded in the duel duel ; but the morning being raw and damp on the occasion of the meeting , he contracted a severe chill chill , and , failing to throw it off , he died die some six months after the departure departure of Prince Rudolf , without having found leisure to adjust his relations with his wife -- who , after another two months , bore bore an heir to the title and estates of the family of Burlesdon .

She bore bore in her arms a child , a baby of some three months old , who winked wink and turned turn aside its little face from the too vivid light of day ; because its existence , heretofore , had brought it acquaintance acquaintance only with the grey twilight of a dungeon , or other darksome apartment of the prison .

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man 's are to a man , but because a new and powerful interest bore bore them down and drove drive them out of his mind for the time -- just as men 's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises .