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PREFACE.


aid was quickly employed, her case was pronounced hopeless. At the end of a week lockjaw intervened, which rendered her speechless, and at the end of a fortnight she had ceased to exist.

From the commencement of her attack she felt convinced that she had no chance of recovery; but, so imbued was her mind with the glories of a future state, the result of a strictly religious training on a