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LESBIA NEWMAN.
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‘You're very practical, Uncle Spines,’ she answered, with a merry laugh; ‘but I won’t exorcise the demon in that ignoble way. No, no, enough wine for to-day, thanks; it may have been only a little biliousness, and if so, I oughtn’t to have taken any wine at all. If it comes again, I’ll have some medicine; but I don’t think it will, somehow.’