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 | | The only means of con- veyance, however, be could affordthe com- mon carriers cartwas not to be thought of: it would have tortured him to death; and the devoted wife took her husband on her back, and carried him, over rugged country roads, full fifty miles. |
 | | At ~Neuburg, thirty miles from Strasbourg, she consulted Dr. John Mels- cher; and at Ensigheim, eighteen miles further on, she consulted the town doctor, both of whom affirmed that her husbands life would not last a week; but her hope was proof against despair; and with in- domitable perseverance, she pressed on hes~ way. |
 | | 1 like it, mon cher, said he puffing at his chibouque, and talking in the mixture of French and English which seemed his natural language, and in which he always affirmed he thought. |
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