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Thorwald's mother was very ill. The fever burned and throbbed in her veins; she lay, all day long and all night long, with her eyes wide open, and could not sleep. The doctor sat at her bedside and looked at her through his spectacles; but she grew worse instead of better.
"Unless she can sleep a sound, natural sleep," he said, "there is no hope for her, I fear."