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 ever I had to write to the person she, about this time, most honoured with her confidence, Mons. Guys, the French consul at Beyrout, she would not allow me to make any further allusion to her illness than to state simply that she was confined to her bed-room with a cold. "I see you are afraid about me," she said, "but I have recovered from worse illnesses than this by God's help and the strength of my constitution."