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 away the melling-bottle of the attentive horeman, and its effects. Not long after their arrival the polite hot introduced a peron, who came, he aid, jut as eaonably as if he had been called in on purpoe: this was a phyician, who immediately began to make enquiries concerning the Countes’s and the young ladies’ tate of health; felt their pules, and with a ignificant countenance tarted a number of upicious ymptoms. Though the old lady, all things conidered, found herelf as well as before the accident, the idea of danger gave her great alarm, for, in pite of all her aches, he was as much attached to her crazy carcae as one commonly is to an old coat, which is o eay that you lay it aide reluctantly, though it be threadbare. By the phyician’s precription he wallowed large does of febrifuge powders; and the buxom girls mut perforce follow the example of their anxious mother. By too ready compliance patients make rigid doctors. The blood Rh