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damp day in the invalids, and the

first of March-such a day as consumptive, especially, regard as facile stepping stones to the grave. The evening was dark and foggy, and the south wind crept chilly and moist through the crevices of an apartment where sat a pale victim of want and disease. She was reclining in a broken arm-chair-her head was supported by a miserable pillow, and her feet rested upon a block before a few dim coals, from which the wind had diffused the smoke very abundantly about the room. Her countenance was exceedingly pale, and much

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