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Excerpt from Jane Welsh Carlyle and Elizabeth Newton Paulet: This Book Is Inscribed
ON a bed, scantily hung with faded print, lay a woman apparently in extreme suffering. A girl about sixteen stood over the fire, carefully watching the contents of a small pan at length it seemed sufficiently prepared, and she poured it into a tea-cup, and approaching the bed where the sick woman lay moaning and restless, she addressed her in Italian, and endeavoured to raise her up; but the woman shook off her arms and hid her face in the pillow, like a fretful child endeavouring to escape from its nurse.
Come, Mamma mia, said the girl, I have made you some thing delicious, something you like very much, won't you eat it, now I have got it ready with my own hands 1.
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