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Rh "Ah, my mother!" murmured Valentine, pressing her lips on the burning brow of her grandmother, "do you wish to kill me? Oh, how feverish you are! we must not send for a notary, but for a doctor?"

"A doctor!" said she, shrugging her shoulders, "I am not ill; I am thirsty—that is all"

"What are you drinking, dear mamma?"

"The same as usual, my dear; my glass is there on the table—give it me, Valentine." Valentine poured the orangeade into a glass, and gave it to her grandmother with a certain degree of dread, for it was the same glass, she fancied, that had been touched by the specter.