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ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND'S THREE BOOKS THAT "LINK EAST AND WEST"
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. We supposed she
was sleeping, but on forcing open the door we found that she had
gone to join her boy husband, though her colour and appearance
was that of a living person."

"And are you sure she had not swooned?"

"She remained in this condition for twenty-two hours without
pulse or heart beat, and so we put her in her casket."

I could not but feel sad that I had not been in the city, and had
had an opportunity to help them to ascertain whether her life had
really gone out. But the girls seemed proud of the distinction of
having had a sister of such consummate virtue. Numerous
embroidered scrolls and laudatory inscriptions were sent her from
friends of the Li family as well as of their own, and it is
expected that the throne will order a memorial arch erected to
her memory.

On another occasion I was requested to go to the palace of one of
the princes. The fourth Princess, a beautiful little child of
five, was ill with diphtheria, and the first greeting of the
mother as I went in was that she "was homesick to see me." The
child had been ill for several days before they sent for me, and
I told them at once that the case was dangerous. I wanted to do
all I could for them and at the same time protect my own children
from the danger of infection. After the first treatment with
antitoxin she seemed to rally, her throat cleared up, but I soon
found that the poison had pervaded her entire system, and so I
stayed with her day and night

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