"Nor her mother either. Clarissa, what shall I do? I want to be just the man you respect and admire."
"Wait until I am well, William, then you shall explain to me the science of mesmeric control, and we will work together with Alice to find out those facts that you do not know. Somehow, I feel you are really stronger and wiser than you have ever been, though you do feel discouraged just now."
"Clarissa, you will not leave me?"
"No. I took you for better or worse, and I shall stand by the contract. I have been trying to think how you could help Augustus."
"How, dear?"
"By magnetic treatments the whole length of his spine and limbs. He is only weak there; not deformed. I was the same before he was born; but you will not mesmerize him, will you?"
"Never."
"Has she grown since you have seen her? She looks much as Augustus did at her age, Dinah and I think, so she must look like you."
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