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The light would then be turned up , and water dashed on the unconscious face . She insisted , McGeorge particularized , that the Meekers took no money for their sittings . At times some grateful person would press a sum on them ; a woman had given two hundred and seventy dollars after a conversation with her nephew , dead , as the world called it , twelve years . All the Meekers worked but Jannie ; she was spared every annoyance possible , and lay in bed till noon . At the suggestion of Stepan , she made the most unexpected demands . Stepan liked pink silk stockings . He begged her to eat a candy called Turkish paste .