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Various,  The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37…

“ It is the most ghastly, the most horrible form of torture that could hurry a sane man into his grave or into a madhouse."
"I have not the least shadow of doubt," I said, after a pause, "that the thing can be accounted for."
Sir Henry shook his head. "No, no," he replied, "it is either as you suggest, a figment of my own diseased brain, and therefore just as horrible as a real apparition; or it is a supernatural visitation. Whether it exists or not, it is reality to me and in no way a dream. The full horror of it is present with me in my waking moments."
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Various,  The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37…

“ Is it not best to be on the safe side?"
But the smooth-shaven one said, decisively: "Let her alone; we have enough to answer for. See, she is sound asleep, and if not, it will be easy to find out before she reaches Brussels how much she knows. Let her be."
Babette lay like a log, stirring neither hand nor foot. In that awful moment, when her life or death was trembling in the balance, her mother love, that divine instinct implanted in every woman's breast, came to her and saved her. She knew that if she moved her baby's life was gone—her own she hardly cared about just then.
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Various,  The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37…

“ It is no use getting angry, all wives are trials."
"But what she says is a lie."
"It is not, father," exclaimed Lili-Tsee. "My husband has the portrait of a woman, and I found it hidden in my rose-leaf vase."
"I swear that I have no portrait but that of my poor dead father," explained the aggrieved husband.
"My children, my children," said the holy bonze, majestically, "show me the portraits."
"Here it is; there is only one, but it is one too many," said Lili-Tsee, sarcastically.
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