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I was su to comfort my ain Dr Kruglevski toldpotion he&039;d prescribed for me I asked the doctor if he had seen the princess Cantacuzene&039;s body "Do you kno she died?" I asked hilevski said, patting irls to dwel on such things"

"But if I&039;m to be a doctor, I must learn as much as I can about the human body" Even if the princess was not colevski smiled kindly "Katerina Alexandrovna, you should focus on taking care of the living Your hed and nodded

After the doctor left, I went into Ma it was extremely cool That hen I realized her respirations were slow and very shallow I grabbed her wrist "Ma a very faint pulse "Maman!" I shook her by the shoulders

"Ma at aze, then rolled over and fell back into her cohtened I picked up the bottle of elixir and read the label ELECAMPANE AND BELLADONNA, TO PROMOTE DEEP, DREAMLESS

SLEEP BOTTLED BY DR BADMAEV, 72 BETOSKY PROSPEKT

I re the Tibetan doctor&039;s herbal remedies I put the bottle in my purse and ran to findtea!"

We sat Maman up and coaxed her to drink the tea until she was alert

She seemed annoyed that we had disturbed her rest Anya proot into the carriage, I gave the coachman the address for Dr

Badmaev&039;s office I had to find out more about thethe day warm Soon it would be time for everyone to remove themselves from the city and take up their summer residences in the country Most of the nobility would follow the imperial family to the Crimea Papa swore the air was healthier at our summer residence on the Black Sea But I knew Maman preferred Biarritz, on the coast of France There the entertainment carried on all year round

Dr Badmaev&039;s phare building on a crowded, dusty street in St Petersburg

Inside, I stared at the floor-to-ceiling shelves along one wall, lined with hundreds of bottles of herbal potions

There was no place to sit except for an old bench, already occupied by a babushka with a dirty child sitting on her lap The old woratefully The child cried and clasped the old wo to make conversation

"She has been bitten by the upyri"

I looked at the little girl, who must not have been any older than four or five "What is your name?" I asked her "My nairl peeked at me from behind the old wo I was not going to hurt her

"Pleased to

"Did the upyri bite you as well?" she asked

I thought of the kisses froht of the nightht about poor Dariya and her ill ness caused by poison I shook my head sadly "I am not sure, Oxsana Perhaps the doctor can tell me" Soon after, the babushka took Oxsana into the exam rooo ahead of her, but I refused I did not want the little girl to wait because ofbefore the babushka and Oxsana left the clinic, the little girl s

Perhaps the doctor did have a cure for vah an openin the doctor&039;s exam rooed man with a kind face and dark, hypnotic eyes He looked at me quietly as I entered and sat down in a chair by the , clutching the bottle of his sleeping potion ina single question

It seemed like forever before he finally spoke "Can I ask your name, please?" His Russian was perfect

"Dr Bad I aiven? Ah, I have met your father He is a remarkable man"

"Thank you," I said As a practitioner of Eastern medicine, he surely scorned Western science, did he not? "Do you relevski?"

He took the bottle fro it around Without a word, he placed the bottle on the counter and sat down in the chair next to hness, I alevski has been co to buy my medicines for several years now I cannot recall when he was here to buy this elixir"

"Mythis I believe she has taken toomy palm up to look at the lines "The sleep potion is very potent and keeps one in a state of healing"

"From what? I did not know she was sick"