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from first to last she never uttered a groan--not during the sharpest
paroxysms of distress. She seemed to say to herself, in the words of two
favorite German mottoes, which she had illumined and placed on the wall
over her bed, _Geduld, Mein Herz!_ (Patience, My Heart!)--_Stille, Mein
Wille!_ (Still, My Will!) "The patient and uncomplaining manner," writes
Dr. Wyman, "in which the most agonizing pains which it has ever been my
lot to witness were borne--with no repining, no murmur, no fretfulness,
but quiet, peaceful submission to endure and suffer--will not soon be
forgotten." At eleven o'clock, when the doctor left, I sent the nurse
away for a couple of hours rest and took her place by the sick-bed.
Lizzy, who had already begun to feel the effects of the morphine, lay
motionless, and breathed somewhat heavily, but not alarmingly so.
_Tuesday, Aug. 13th._--Shortly after one o'clock I called the nurse and,
directing her to summon me at once in the event of any change, retired
to the green-room for a little rest. The girls had been persuaded before
the doctor left, to throw themselves on their bed. Everything was quiet
until about three o'clock, when Hatty knocked at my door with a message
from the nurse. I hurried down and saw at the first glance as I entered
the room, that a great change had taken place. It seemed as if I heard
the crack of doom and that the world was of a sudden going to pieces. I
went to G.'s room, woke him, told him what I feared, and desired him to
go for Dr. Slocum as quickly as possible. He was dressed in an instant,
as it were, and gone. In the meantime I woke H., and told him his
mother, I feared, was dying. When Dr. Slocum arrived he felt her pulse,
looked at her and listened to her breathing for a minute or two, and
then, turning slowly to me, said, _It is death!_ This was not far from
four o'clock. I asked if I had better send at once for Dr. Wyman? "He
can do nothing for her," was the reply, "but you had better send." I
requested G. to call Albert, and tell him to go for Dr. W. as fast as
possible. "I will saddle Prince and go myself," G. said; and in a few
minutes he was riding rapidly towards Factory Point. I then knocked at
Dr. Poor's door. Upon opening it and being told what was coming, he was
so completely stunned that he could with difficulty utter a word. He had
arrived the previous afternoon on the same train by which Dr. Vincent
left. I had tried by telegraph to _prevent_ h
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