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"There, she is co but the an Aurelia, but her own voice see inexperienced in fainting, she was frightened

"That is right, you are better Now, a drop of strong waters"

Aurelia choked, and put theht, and revived enough to ask, "How came I here?"

"Jumbo must have carried you out, ma'am, and laid you here before ever he called any one," said Mrs Aylward "Dear, dear, to think of your being taken like that But the tins of those e! You h to the reproof of greediness to begin to protest against the mince-pie theory, but she recollected that she could not account for her swoon, and thereupon beca the housekeeper's opinion A sound of footsteps ht; but Mrs Aylward declared it was fancy, and as she was by this time able to walk, she was conducted to her own room There she was examined on her recent diet, and was colect of autu and medicine; and she only stave off the send for the barber and his lancet the nextto s a dose coether ht, was capable of little by day, was declared by the children to be cross, and was much inclined to plead indisposition as an excuse for not visiting that alarreater part of the day she felt as if she must avail herself of the pretext, and as if she neither could nor would encounter that strange double creature in the dark; but somehow she had been as much fascinated as terrified, and, in spite of her resolve, she found herselfall over and as cold as ice

The dark chambers armed by German stoves, so that the atmosphere was always equable, and it seemed to revive her, while a kind, warentle, courteous, paternal tone that addressed her, "How chill and treht"