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A Dark Night’s Work

CHAPTER VII
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They thought that she slept.
She sprang off the sofa and knelt down.
"Oh, God," she prayed, "Thou knowest! Help me! There is none other help but Thee!" I suppose she fainted.

For, an hour or more afterwards Miss Monro, coming in, found her lying insensible by the side of the sofa.
She was carried to bed.

She was not delirious, she was only in a stupor, which they feared might end in delirium.

To obviate this, her father sent far and wide for skilful physicians, who tended her, almost at the rate of a guinea the minute.
People said how hard it was upon Mr.Wilkins, that scarcely had that wretch Dunster gone off, with no one knows how much out of the trusts of the firm, before his only child fell ill.

And, to tell the truth, he himself looked burnt and scared with affliction.


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