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 dewed my face, a chilly trembling shook my limbs violently, and the leaden hue of death rendered my countenance wan. I hoped to find relief if I was to walk up and down the room; however I was seized by the burning fangs of still greater, still more agonizing, pains, and the despondency preying on my bewildered fancy increased every minute. I shivered and trembled in such a manner that the chattering of my teeth could be heard at a great distance; all my muscles were contracted, by horrid convulsions; the pangs of excruciating agony increased for two hours of infernal torture, 'till at last, my friends despairing of my life, carried me to bed, there I lay for half an hour as if my spirit had been separated from my body, which really has been the case. I can give no better description of the last degree of my agonizing pains, than by comparing my feelings with the torments of one, whose whole frame suddenly is pierced with a red hot iron.