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 thirty Theophratus now inited on taking ome blood, and, in default of his aid de camp the urgeon, drew out his red ribband, and the Countes yielded without reluctance to this boated preervative againt all diagreeable effects of terror; nor would he have refued, if his demands for the ecurity of her health had rien to a clyter. Happily he did not recommend this heroic application, it certainly would have reduced the bahful mies to deperation; for nothing hort of the doctor’s eloquence and the mother’s authority could overcome their fear of the teel tooth of the flew, and bring them to et their foot into the warm water. The roy lymph of the mother, and the purple balam of health from the veins of the daughters, now trickled apace into the ilver baon. Abigail’s turn came next; and though he vowed he was o terrified at the ight of blood, that the mallet prick with a needle generally threw her into hyterics, the inexorable phyician would hearken to no pro- tetations;