[A Strange Story<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
A Strange Story
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CHAPTER XIII
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Both these difficulties I took on myself.

I bring you to her house, and, on leaving you, I shall go on to Mr.Vigors, and tell him what is done is my doing, and not to be undone by him; so that matter is settled.

Indeed, if you were out of the question, I should not suffer Mr.Vigors to re-introduce all these mummeries of clairvoyance and mesmerism into the precincts of the Hill.

I did not demolish a man I really liked in Dr.Lloyd, to set up a Dr.Jones, whom I despise, in his stead.

Clairvoyance on Abbey Hill, indeed! I saw enough of it before." "True; your strong intellect detected at once the absurdity of the whole pretence,--the falsity of mesmerism, the impossibility of clairvoyance." "No, my strong intellect did nothing of the kind.


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