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CHAPTER V
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And a doctor feeling her head all over.

And Yapp among them, held up by two men, with his face all over blood.

I wasn't able to speak or move; I didn't feel as if I was breathing even, till the doctor stopped, and looked up; and then a great shudder went through all of us together, as if we'd been one body, instead of twenty or more.
"'It's not killed her,' says the doctor.

'Her brain's escaped injury.' "I didn't hear another word.
"I don't know how long it was before I seemed to wake up like, with a dreadful feeling of pain and tearing of everything inside me.

I was on the landlady's bed, and Jemmy was standing over me with a bottle of salts.


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