[The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jewel of Seven Stars CHAPTER V 27/39
I would strongly advise that the patient be removed to another room; or, as an alternative, that those mummies and all such things should be removed from his chamber.
Why, it's enough to put any man into an abnormal condition, to have such an assemblage of horrors round him, and to breathe the atmosphere which they exhale.
You have evidence already of how such mephitic odour may act.
That nurse--Kennedy, I think you said, Doctor--isn't yet out of her state of catalepsy; and you, Mr.Ross, have, I am told, experienced something of the same effects.
I know this"-- here his eyebrows came down more than ever, and his mouth hardened--"if I were in charge here I should insist on the patient having a different atmosphere; or I would throw up the case. Doctor Winchester already knows that I can only be again consulted on this condition being fulfilled.
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