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"The office of this drug can be twofold It has the power in itself to flush the cerebral centres with fresh blood, and it can also serve as a point of support for the suggestion I aive It does not really matter whether she has any phase of what they call mediumistic power or not To rid her of her trances will liberate her from a belief in her ills, and that is the ement at this point in the many cases where perfect e of mental sti in common, and that is the diversion of attention fros The hypnotic state has one broad characteristic, and that is the working of the subliminal consciousness in directions unusual in ordinary life"

"The way to help her is to cut off every suggestion which leads to the trance and to the thought of the dead; to centre herher brain with sights and sounds utterly disassociated with her past"

The realization that she was at last domesticated under his roof made her redemption seem easy, certain, almost acco her fro keen sorrow upon theht to consider hie would seem less violent; for, after all, it was the law of life which subordinated the claims of the mother to those of the husband

"At any rate, the issue is now clear in estion has been formed and fastened upon her by her own mother and by Clarke That chain must be broken; it is broken in Clarke's case, and no matter what the pain, the fear, this course may cause the mother, it must be pursued in order to restore Viola to health"

He passed froes in his own life which an avowal of love would ined the announce into a sober and decorous paragraph a with dignified coratulations of his associates and club-fellows He had never considered the possibility of shrinking froht of finding excuses to justify or explain his e He now clearly foresaw, foreheard the comment, the surprise, the opposition of his family