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  • Her female companion overwhelmed her with questions, with proffers of assistance, with requests that the carriage might be stopped --- that a doctor might be fetched --- that drops might be gotten --- that burnt feathers and asaftida, fair water, and hartshorn, might be procured, all at once, and without one instant's delay.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

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