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that she also thought I was turning the 

 leaf. I lay in this state for seven weary 

 days, when I began rapidly to recover ; 

 and no one knows, who has not ex- 

 perienced it, how delightful it is to feel 

 new life coursing through one's veins 

 where had been nothing but congealed 

 blood and dormant vitality. I don't think 

 any one can realise what life is, till he 

 has been on the threshold of death ; and 

 then the delicious feeling of returning 

 life, is one never to be forgotten. 



I was meditating on what could have 

 become of my brave companions, and 

 thinking that all could not have been lost, 

 for our general was a man renowned for 

 his many resources, and his distinguished 

 talents as a leader in the field, when I 

 heard a cough, and, looking up, observed 

 a native surveying me most attentively; 



