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I brought him a glass of water and he seemed to recover, but when he roseand started to play I thought he had a dazed look. She was a good child, and notshallow, not frivolous, but meditative and thoughtful, and much given to thinking out the reasons of things and trying to make them harmonize withresults. >From the note-book: The Haunted Looking-glass. But a day or two later she was worse again--then better.

It was a house built in the first third of the last century by one of theMorris family, so long prominent in New York history. They declined with greatunanimity. When I arrived, he said, the place was just a conflagration--a kind of human prairie-fire. He hadn't felt sleepy,he said, and thought a little exercise would do him good.