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2026-03-29
That habit came back to the poor dear, and that awful night on the cliff must have made her ill. I had almost forgotten in my own affairs how ill she was afterwards.
2026-02-19
John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. He was very cool outwardly, but was nervous all the same.
2026-01-15
It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work before he was caged. Jack Sheppard himself couldn’t get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrain...
2026-01-15
Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” “Oh, no, no! I am so frightened about him!” It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her husband’s trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend and school companion. We soothed and co...