ABSTRACT
Early on the morning of the second day before the marriage, the mother came to the bedside of her daughter. She had previously been much alarmed. She stooped over her pillow, that she might make her own observations, and draw a surer prognostic and a more impartial report from the evidence of inspection, than she would have a chance of deriving from the answers of the patient sufferer. Margaret was still asleep. She had passed a feverish and restless night, till at length nature was worn out, and the young woman had fallen into a short oblivion. Though asleep, her eyes were not closed. There was an uneasy twitching / of the muscles of several parts of the body. Her lips moved, and uttered several indistinct sounds, though the mother could not make out the meaning. She gently recalled her to the perception of things around her.
