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Rh desire that a physician should be called in, and accordingly a gentleman, duly authorized, made his appearance, and prescribed gargles and diluents secundem artem. "And will you send de nourse along wid de bottel?" said Fancbette. "There is no occasion for a nurse," said Lady Anne; "as I cannot leave my bed, you will have nothing to do but give me my medicines, and can write for Miss Helen to come to me immediately." "Oh! mon dieu, I can do nothing for de sick bed; Inglis constitution ver odd thing, if I gif bottel not right. I go for kill ma chère ladi." "I will procure a nurse," said the apothecary, "for it is not a case to be trifled with. I question if this person can read a label, or apply a leech." "Leech! leech!" shrieked Fanchette, in the horrors, "les noir diable! I will not live when I look in him face. I have de grand aversion." "Leave the room, and send a housemaid; you alarm the patient, and will do more mischief in an hour, than a week can retrieve." Whilst this gentleman was intreating the care of the mistress of the house, until a proper nurse could be procured, Count Riccardini arrived, and heard with more sorrow than surprise of the state Lady Anne was in, for, accustomed to the care long demanded by an ailing wife, and naturally a man of acute sensibility and great intelligence, he had become learned in