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THE recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval1; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. I took no note of the lapse2 of time- of the change from morning to noon, from noon to evening. I observed when any one entered or left the apartment: I could even tell who they were; I could understand what was said when the speaker stood near to me; but I could not answer; to open my lips or move my limbs was equally impossible. Hannah, the servant, was my most frequent visitor. Her coming disturbed me. I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me. Diana and Mary appeared in the chamber3 once or twice a day. They would whisper sentences of this sort at my bedside-
'It is very well we took her in.'
'Yes; she would certainly have been found dead at the door in the morning had she been left out all night. I wonder what she has gone through?'
'Strange hardships, I imagine- poor, emaciated4, pallid5 wanderer?'
'She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her accent was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed and wet, were little worn and fine.'
'She has a peculiar6 face; fleshless and haggard as it is, I rather like it; and when in good health and animated7, I can fancy her physiognomy would be agreeable.'
Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable8 of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. I was comforted.
Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and

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countenance
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perused
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adj.和睦的,调和的,和谐的,协调的 | |
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