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"Oh dear! Oh dear! " exclaimed Mrs. Bullwell, "the poor thing's fainted!"
There was a comfortable sound in that homely phrase, yet still it / seemed more than mere fainting to me. Doubtless women are accustomed / to these little misadventures. They think nothing of them. But with a / man, and when it is the woman whom he loves, I defy him to look with / equanimity at the still white face, the closed eyes and that apparent / cessation of all breathing.