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I a the fair

sex, in the days (or rather the nights) of which I have the honor to

hold forth, as at the present time; but I am inclined to think not,

frorievously

troubled and tossed about in herof the kind For the

first few ether too stunned by the suddenness of

the shock to cry out orbut of being rapidly borne along in sos passed away, her new sensation was, the intensely

uncoe of suffocation She made one

frantic but futile effort to free herself and screa tightness, and her cry was drowned

in the hot atmosphere within the shawl, and never passed beyond it Most

assuredly Leoline would have been ser; but, fortunately for her, it was only the few

yards between her house and the river She knew she was then carried

down some steps, and she heard the dip of the oars in the water, and

then her bearer paused, and went through a short dialogue with soe, she rather felt than knew, for nothing was