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She was tired
out with her journey and the excitement. Do you think she is in danger,
Miss Panney?"
"Don't believe it," said the old lady. "She looks strong, and these young
things get well before you know it."
"Now, my young lady," said Miss Panney, as she stood by Miriam's bedside,
with a steaming bowl, "you may drink the whole of this, but you mustn't
ask me for any more, and then you may go to sleep, and to-morrow morning
you can get up and skip around and see what sort of a place Cobhurst is
by daylight."
"I can't wait until to-morrow for that," said Miriam, "and is that tea or
medicine?"
"It's both, my dear; sit up and drink it off."
Miriam still eyed the bowl. "Is it homeopathic or allopathic?" she asked.
"Neither the one or the other," was the discreet reply; "it is
Panneyopathic, and just the thing for a girl who wants to get out of bed
as soon as she can."
Miriam looked full into the bright black eyes, and then took the bowl,
and drank every drop of the contents.
"Thank you," she said. "It is perfectly horrid, but I must get up.


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