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There was great alarm at first, until it was found that she
       was in a swoon, and that the swoon was yielding to the usu-
       al means of recovery; when the Doctor, who had lifted her
       head upon his knee, put her curls aside with his hand, and
       said, looking around:
         ‘Poor Annie! She’s so faithful and tender-hearted! It’s the
       parting from her old playfellow and friend - her favourite
       cousin - that has done this. Ah! It’s a pity! I am very sorry!’
          When she opened her eyes, and saw where she was, and
       that  we  were  all  standing  about  her,  she  arose  with  as-
       sistance: turning her head, as she did so, to lay it on the
       Doctor’s shoulder - or to hide it, I don’t know which. We
       went into the drawing-room, to leave her with the Doctor
       and her mother; but she said, it seemed, that she was better
       than she had been since morning, and that she would rather
       be brought among us; so they brought her in, looking very
       white and weak, I thought, and sat her on a sofa.
         ‘Annie, my dear,’ said her mother, doing something to
       her dress. ‘See here! You have lost a bow. Will anybody be so
       good as find a ribbon; a cherry-coloured ribbon?’
          It was the one she had worn at her bosom. We all looked
       for it; I myself looked everywhere, I am certain - but nobody
       could find it.
         ‘Do you recollect where you had it last, Annie?’ said her
       mother.
          I wondered how I could have thought she looked white,
       or anything but burning red, when she answered that she
       had had it safe, a little while ago, she thought, but it was not
       worth looking for.
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