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 you awake perhaps all night"—replied Charlotte, meaning to overthrow his attempts at Surprise, by the Grandeur of her own Conceptions.—"Oh! if that were all!—he exclaimed.—No—it acts on me like Poison and wd entirely take away the use of my right side, before I had swallowed it 5 minutes.—It sounds almost incredible—but it has happened to me so often that I cannot doubt it.—The use of my right Side is entirely taken away for several hours!" "It sounds rather odd to be sure—answered Charlotte coolly—but I dare say it would be proved to be the simplest thing in the World, by those who have studied right sides & Green Tea scientifically & thoroughly understand all the possibilities of their action on each other."—Soon after Tea, a Letter was brought to Miss D. P—from the Hotel.— Rh