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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXV
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And one (with the postmark of Wurzburg) was for Madame Fontaine.

I sent it upstairs to her immediately.
When I opened my own letter, I found sad news of poor Mr.Engelman.

Time and change had failed to improve his spirits.

He complained of a feeling of fullness and oppression in his head, and of hissing noises in his ears, which were an almost constant annoyance to him.

On two occasions he had been cupped, and had derived no more than a temporary benefit from the employment of that remedy.


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