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He spoke low and rapidly--hardly above his breath; but the black

eyes, unclosing, flashed upon him

"So you have come back!" said Rosa's weak voice "You stayed away an

eternity!"

Her coquettish displeasure and the asperity of her accent contrasted

so oddly with her vehemently expressed attachment for her husband

and extolarded her in

speechless a

it--even raising her hand pettishly as to repel further endearments

"I should have died of the blue devils if Aunt Rachel hadn't, by the

, and driven over, like the

Good Samaritan she is, to take pity upon me in my destitution; to

pour oil--not cod-liver--into my wounds, and wine into my mouth She

is better than all the ht your bearded Esculapius home with you, you may tell

him, with my compliments, that I won't see him yet awhile He was an

old beau of mine, and I hope I have too limpse of me until Dr Sutton has set ht ical preparations for the amelioration of human misery,