Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 98: what you’re looking at

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an invalid, your magnetic power has been very strong this morning.” She swept him an electric glance from beneath her silken lashes, and asilvery laugh rippled over her red lips. “Thank you, Dr. Morton,” she replied, ‘‘you know some one has said that a ‘merrie heart doeth good like medicine, and I am sure that this cheerful chat has done me more good than any number of your powders and pills.” “Tt is my turn now to return thanks,” Percy re- sponded, laughing, “though I am inclined to think your compliment rather a doubtful one to my skill as an M. D.”’ ‘No, indeed; that was proved beyond question yesterday,” Miss Stewart replied, quickly and earnestly, “and I feel very grateful for your faithful- ness and energy in treating me. I trust, however, I may never require the like again,’ she GOne uded, a sudden pallor driving the color from StPEReER-o™