“Something Wrong in the Chest.”
At St. Helena, Hook encountered the late Lord Charles Somerset, on his way to assume the governorship of the Cape. Lord Charles, who had met him in London occasionally, and knew nothing of his arrest, said, “I hope you are not going home for your health, Mr. Hook.” “Why,” said Theodore, “I am sorry to say, they think there is something wrong in the chest.”—Quarterly Review, vol. lxxiii., p. 73.